October 2008
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WatchI’ve talked data but I don’t think I’ve talked about how into the fivethirtyeight.com site I am this year. Nate Silver recently has been getting great exposure. The Colbert interview posted here, a feature that ran today in the Chicago Tribune, as well as several articles for the New Republic.
I think it’s well worth taking a look at how he approaches prediction...
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Making it Happen in Creative Industries
The New Yorker published a piece by Jonah Lehrer that explores why we get a great idea when we do. It got me thinking about the ideas business, the article is absolutely worth a read, and you can read it here.
First intriguing part is where they describe how a study isolated brain activity in one region when an insight appears:
“When the scientists looked at the data, however, they saw that a...
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Back with Links
I’ve been unable to get to the Tumblr systems for a few weeks now. Since I won’t be able to formulate thoughts around much of what I’ve seen or read I think I’ll just provide a link dump from the past week of interesting things. Here is a pithy post exploring “Purpose-Idea” that I liked but will say I generally disagree with his critique of MS’s tagline. Since everyone is already blogging...