Thinking about over-thinking

July 15, 2010

A colleague of mine sent me an issue he wanted my thoughts about, and at the end of it added “…but maybe I’m just overthinking this.” Which got me to thinking, what does that mean? My first pass is that overthinking occurs when we spend too much time (vainly) trying to reduce the uncertainty in [...]

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This is not good

June 28, 2010

Re: Bilksi Nor is it entirely surprising, given the predilections of this court for douchey business practices. I am pro-market. That is not the same thing as being pro-business, a distinction that seems lost on most of these twits.

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Take the shot

June 10, 2010

Ah, those dirty Blackhawks won last night, claiming Lord Stanley’s cup on a shaky goal that was more or less identical to Crosby’s goal that won gold for Canada in Vancouver. Bad-angle shot from the left side in OT, the goalie wasn’t really expecting it and didn’t close up quick enough, and that’s that. Which [...]

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You jump first, okay?

June 8, 2010

Interesting article from Steve Kaplan (Chicago GSB) and Josh Lerner (HBS) re: the scale of investment and returns in the venture industry. Their conclusion is that nothing out of the ordinary is going on; I’m not sure that’s how I’d put it. Their chart 3 views VC investment as a percent of the overall market [...]

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Really, AT&T?

June 3, 2010

AT&T announced some new ways to screw you iPhone/iPad data pricing plans yesterday. Predictably there was a lot of whinging about the loss of the current $30/month unlimited data plan. And to the extent that there was a lot of iPad advertising that featured this, I agree. But more broadly, I have no problem with [...]

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