| | Laboriously Sordid Links - Cheap Talk | | Sep 03, 2010 1:34 pm | | | Roger Federer is William TellNew album from The Bad Plus. And here are the places I need to be this fall.Basque wine.Charles Keating’s pornography researchPunk math. Roger Federer is William TellNew album from The Bad Plus. And here are the places I need to be this fall.Basque wine.Charles Keating’s pornography researchPunk math.... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | What is Stanley McCrystal teaching at Yale? - Cheap Talk | | Sep 03, 2010 7:25 am | | | Syllabus for his course on Leadership:7th September 2010: “The Importance of Leading Differently – The Changing Operating Environment”14th September 2010: “Case Study: The Changing Military 1972-2010”21st September 2010: “Role of a Leader”27th September 2010 (6-8pm): “Coping With Failure”28th September 2010 (Assignment 1 Due): “Building... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | Identification Strategy For Second Serves - Cheap Talk | | Sep 02, 2010 9:12 pm | | | The data on first vs. second serve win frequency cannot be taken at face value because of selection problems that bias against second serves. The general idea is that first serves always happen but second serves happen only when first serves miss. The fact that the first serve missed is information that at this moment serving is harder than usual. ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | how to be awesome - orgtheory.net | | Sep 02, 2010 7:05 pm | | | Cal Newport is an MIT computer science post-doc and college advice dude. He has some books and an interesting blog. I thought orgtheory readers might enjoy this post about a computer science professor named James McLurkin. It’s hard to find such a nice statement about what it takes to be a truly good academic. The post is about how he ... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | My Take On Second Serves - Cheap Talk | | Sep 01, 2010 9:01 pm | | | Here is Sandeep’s post on the data discussed in the New York Times about winning percentages on first and second serves in tennis.There are a few players who win with higher frequency on either the first or second serve and this is a puzzle. Daniel Khaneman even gets drawn into it. (To be precise, we are calculating the probability she ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | Problems With Peer Review - Cheap Talk | | Sep 01, 2010 1:51 pm | | | Twenty years ago, David Kaplan of the Case Western Reserve University had a manuscript rejected, and with it came what he calls a “ridiculous” comment. “The comment was essentially that I should do an x-ray crystallography of the molecule before my study could be published,” he recalls, but the study was not about structure. The x-ray crystallography... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | the empathy gap and torture - orgtheory.net | | Sep 01, 2010 10:41 am | | | Lack of empathy may be one reason that people rationalize heinous acts like torture. My colleagues at Northwestern, Mary Hunter-Morris (also of Harvard Law) and Loran Nordgren, and George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon have written a new paper explaining how social psychological tendencies make it difficult for interrogators to assess the difference between “enhanced... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | The al-Megrahi Affair - Cheap Talk | | Sep 01, 2010 1:01 am | | | Abdelbasset al-Megrahi. He was the Lockerbie bomber who was released from a Scottish prison because he had just a few weeks to live. As it turns out, he lived for a year and may live for many more.The public outrage has an uncomfortable edge to it.Clinton yesterday implied strongly that Megrahi’s release, and his continued survival long beyond the... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | great (untested) propositions from org. theory - orgtheory.net | | Aug 31, 2010 4:15 pm | | | Today I ran across this beautiful paragraph from an American Political Science Review article (1963) by Peter Blau:In general, a situation of collective dependence is fertile soil for the development of authority, but its development is contingent on judicious restraint by the superior in the use of his power. If he alienates subordinates by imposing his will... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | Hacking The Showcase Showdown - Cheap Talk | | Aug 31, 2010 3:28 pm | | | Parallel paths meet and end on one astounding episode of The Price is Right. Beautiful writing.Ted says that when he went back for the afternoon taping, the producers moved him to a part of the studio where the contestants couldn’t see him. He says that he has heard “through unofficial channels” that he has been banned from the Bob Barker ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | Luck vs. Skill - Cheap Talk | | Aug 31, 2010 1:43 pm | | | In golf:How big a deal is luck on the golf course? On average, tournament winners are the beneficiaries of 9.6 strokes of good luck. Tiger Woods’ superior putting, you’ll recall, gives him a three-stroke advantage per tournament. Good luck is potentially three times more important. When Connolly and Rendleman looked at the tournament results, they... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | another year, another theory syllabus - orgtheory.net | | Aug 31, 2010 1:16 pm | | | I’m teaching graduate social theory again this semester, and I ended up taking a hatchet to the syllabus. This time round we’re looking at things more thematically than chronologically, because I decided I didn’t want to be doing the History of Ideas all the time. Comments, suggestions, incoherent grunting, and bitter laughter at the sad, sad... | | | Read more from orgtheory.net | |
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| | The Tug of Peace - Cheap Talk | | Aug 31, 2010 12:18 am | | | Imagine the game: you and your partner are holding opposite ends of a rope which has a ribbon hanging from the middle of it. Your goal is to keep the ribbon dangling above a certain point marked on the ground.This game is the Tug of Peace. Unlike a tug of war, you do not want to pull harder than your ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | WSJ review of The Enlightened Economy - Knowledge Problem | | Aug 30, 2010 3:47 pm | | | Lynne KieslingI recently recommended Joel Mokyr’s The Enlightened Economy and mentioned that I was going to have a more lengthy discussion of it soon. I still have things I want to say about it, but Trevor Butterworth fills some of the void with his review in the Wall Street Journal. Butterworth has some pointed (and I would argue accurate) criticism ... | | | Read more from Knowledge Problem | |
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| | Doctor Shopping - Cheap Talk | | Aug 30, 2010 1:30 pm | | | Doctors are skeptical. But they should be. When I approach a doctor with symptoms he has no way of knowing how many other doctors have already examined me. On average that number is larger than zero. So the doctor should factor in the wisdom of at least that fractional number of doctors who have already given me a clean bill ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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| | Klein’s review of The Wealth of Networks - Knowledge Problem | | Aug 30, 2010 6:33 am | | | Lynne KieslingI like Peter Klein’s review in the Independent Review of Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks. Apart from giving a good overview of the Benkler work, Peter offers some original insights that are worth thinking about. For example:To ensure open access to the networked economy, Benkler favors apublic-ownership network infrastructure... | | | Read more from Knowledge Problem | |
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| | Why To Send Invitations By Email - Cheap Talk | | Aug 30, 2010 12:08 am | | | I don’t mind rejection but a lot of people do.When I want to ask someone to join me for a coffee or lunch I always send email. And its all about rejection even though I don’t mind rejection so much. The reason is that nobody can know for sure how I deal with rejection. And almost everybody hates to reject ... | | | Read more from Cheap Talk | |
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