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June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 andreweverett360

Rory Sutherland on ROI and Opportunity Cost

Camille Moore asked Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, “What do you see as the biggest problem that’s facing branding right now?”

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June 16, 2024June 15, 2024 andreweverett360

Payoff from AI Projects is Dismal

Thomas Claburn wrote an article for The Register titled Payoff from AI Projects is Dismal, Biz Leaders Complain (12 June 2024).

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June 1, 2024June 2, 2024 andreweverett360

the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle

Sean Brady interviewed Gerald Ashley on the Simplifying Complexity podcast (27 May 2024). The main topic was the difference between a Mess, a Problem, and a Puzzle.

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May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 andreweverett360

Risk: Global averages do not apply to local failures if they can be catastrophic.

JP Castlin wrote a LinkedIn post titled The risk(s) of not understanding risk (May 13, 2024).

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January 5, 2024February 18, 2024 andreweverett360

AI Safety: aligning artificial intelligence with human values

Jessica Dai wrote an article for Reboot titled The Artificiality of Alignment: How are we actually “aligning AI with human values”?  (19 August 2023).  

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September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 andreweverett360

Knightian uncertainty

I recently posted a review of the book Why Can’t You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive’s Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and Make Better Decisions by Patrick Leach. In response, Rick Nason commented about the “Knightian distinction of risk & probability.”

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March 9, 2023March 17, 2023 andreweverett360

Mitch Goldstein on Design Education

Zachary Petit interviewed Mitch Goldstein for a Fast Company titled Design education is ready for a revolution (6 March 2023).  Mitch Goldstein is an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.  Goldstein is the author of How to Be a Design Student (And How to Teach Them).

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August 28, 2021 andreweverett360

What is Ergodicity?

Taylor Pearson wrote an article titled A Big Little Idea Called Ergodicity.

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June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 andreweverett360

Kurtosis as a measure of risk

I was looking at the definition of kurtosis on the Corporate Finance Institute website.

“Kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.”

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November 28, 2020 andreweverett360

Social aspects of Systems Thinking

Pauline Roberts wrote a blog post titled The enablers of systems thinking – their amazing power and why some may find them unpalatable. Continue reading “Social aspects of Systems Thinking” →

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