A couple weeks ago it was reported that Nate Silver is out at FiveThirtyEight, the brand he expanded massively on his “perfect” prediction of the 2012 election outcome in all 50 states. I want to talk about Nate Silver, because to me he’s a great example of a data

A quick note for email subscribers: ghost newsletters were having some problems rendering in gmail last week. I know mine was missing images. Based on what I've seen in some of my other subscriptions this week, the issue is fixed, but if there are rendering problems just link

Some housekeeping: last week I had hammered out a blog on bad uses of data, but I reverted it to draft. I stand by what I said in it, but it was incomplete and some of the arguments weren’t given enough words. I’m going to try to parse

Last week I saw a tweet that made me recall a Coast Guard unit I’d heard about years ago, and haven’t thought about much since. The location of the station was bad, but it was a bad station for a lot of reasons unrelated to location. It made

In recent weeks, two major tech topics have come to the forefront, both in some ways tied to US-China relations. The first is new regulation, aimed at TikTok, due to the behavior of the TikTok “algorithm” and the perceived ties between TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, and the Chinese government.

I was going to hold off on publishing this until later this week, but recent events made it feel somewhat relevant. I can’t stop thinking about this article in the financial times. It’s a fascinating example of how we develop myths that help instill pride in our collective

Jerome Powell, and the Fed, met the consensus expectation for their March meeting and decided to raise interest rates by 25 bps to continue combating inflation. This was hardly a foregone conclusion, though. Before the meetings, Powell sounded more hawkish, raising the possibility that the Fed would increase rates by

Today's post takes a journey from fatherhood to corporate strategy and I think the way we get there makes sense. As I discussed a bit in my intro, some of these posts will have a personal essay flavor. I am not the kind of person that plays up

Some throat clearing before we get into it: thanks to everyone who read and gave me some feedback on the first blog. I'm thrilled with the response and will try very hard to continue to provide something worthy of your time. This post may be the start of

Over the weekend you may have heard about the Silicon Valley Bank crisis. I won’t get too deeply into the details, but the short version is the bank ran into a liquidity crisis, meaning it was essentially cash poor, and when its depositors got wind of that there was