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Fixing Health Care
Health care rationing already happens now, and it will increase in the future. The hysterical screaming over health care has reached outlandish new lows. One thing I’ve learned is that policy debates are exactly like political debates: misinformation, exaggeration, outright lies, and bitter hatred for the opposition. This isn’t a good way to transform a $2 trillion chunk of our economy.
Handwaving
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias means that we human’s aren’t a rational and neutral as we like to think we are. Couple more thoughts I picked up last week... I finally found out the name of something I’ve know about for a while: Confirmation bias . This is the brain’s tendency to seek out information that supports are existing beliefs, and to put more faith in evidence that supports out current beliefs; rather than take a purely balanced view.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Product Management conference
At which point are we talking about Agile or Ration Rose? On Tuesday I attended a mini-conference about Product Management. In fact, this conference billed itself as “The UK’s first conference on Product Management” which might actually be true. I’ve written before that I believe Product Management is a much misunderstood role in the UK, and that I think it is an appreciation of this role that makes Silicon Valley companies so much more successful than their UK peers.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Friday, May 16, 2008
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Rational decisions?
What he says is: manager have a hard time making rational decisions. They may think they are making rational decisions but they probably aren't. So making a rational decision is hard, very hard. The same effect works on them too so they won't act rationally, and how do you predict what an irrational person or business will do? I'm currently reading Strategy Bites Back and I'll write a proper review in time. Before then I read something on Friday that really made me think.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, December 10, 2006
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The final sustainable edge
So, for example, lower wages mean a higher manager-to-worker ration so managers can spend more time helping the worker develop, e.g. I’ve finished reading “The Only Sustainable Edge” by Johns Hagel and Seely Brown . At the risk of boring my readers with a third entry on the subject of this book I think it deserves a wrap up - and a slight correction to some of my initial comments. (See
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Sunday, September 4, 2005
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Christmas reading: Classic essays on software development
A Rational Development Process and How to Fake It by Dave Parnas. In this paper Parnas argues that while we may want to use a rational development process, and while it makes sense to do so it is impossible. And since you can’t schedule these things or guarantee they will happen the chances of following a rational process are negligible. However, in order to make our work accessible to those who come after us we need to fake the development process so it looks like we followed a rational process. There are many, many books about software development. The technical
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Saturday, December 22, 2007
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Confirmation bias
Confirmation bias means that we human’s aren’t a rational and neutral as we like to think we are. Couple more thoughts I picked up last week... I finally found out the name of something I’ve know about for a while: Confirmation bias . This is the brain’s tendency to seek out information that supports are existing beliefs, and to put more faith in evidence that supports out current beliefs; rather than take a purely balanced view.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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Fixing Health Care
Health care rationing already happens now, and it will increase in the future. The hysterical screaming over health care has reached outlandish new lows. One thing I’ve learned is that policy debates are exactly like political debates: misinformation, exaggeration, outright lies, and bitter hatred for the opposition. This isn’t a good way to transform a $2 trillion chunk of our economy.
Handwaving
- Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Pricing on the internet and destroying your brand
Their rational is that high street firms help build “the brand proposition and purchasing experience.” Things are cheaper on the internet right? We all know this, no stores to rent, no shop windows to make up, no sales staff - and customers pay for delivery. Well it seems not.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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LinkedIn: good thing? Bad thing?
In part, despite my rational above I still imagine it could put me in contact with someone useful. Part of it is also slightly narcissistic - my network is bigger than your network. Some of it is also to do with tracking people, although I suppose I should use Plaxo for that. I’ve got an account on LinkedIn , and I’ve got a whole bunch of connections. If you don’t know LinkedIn it is a social network site with a work focus - believe the hype and you’ll find your next job through it.
Allan Kelly's Blog
- Friday, July 14, 2006
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