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ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 28, 2024 - 11:31am

 rgio wrote:

Yes sir.  The "walk away" invoice accrual at year-end was somewhere around $8M (for a month)...and I'm not kidding when I say "You could have gotten as much value for $1.50 in late charges at the library". 

It was a fixed consulting fee...they didn't report hours or progress or the weather.  My conversation involved a request for details or hours or some justification, to which I was told "That's for the month, the month is over, therefore we owe them".    Ahhhh... corporate America.  God Bless capitalism.




Crazy. It's almost as if the ludicrous performance-to-billing ratio was part of an experiment.
rgio

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Posted: Mar 28, 2024 - 9:30am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
five MILLION a month?

Yes sir.  The "walk away" invoice accrual at year-end was somewhere around $8M (for a month)...and I'm not kidding when I say "You could have gotten as much value for $1.50 in late charges at the library". 

It was a fixed consulting fee...they didn't report hours or progress or the weather.  My conversation involved a request for details or hours or some justification, to which I was told "That's for the month, the month is over, therefore we owe them".    Ahhhh... corporate America.  God Bless capitalism.


ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 28, 2024 - 8:50am

 rgio wrote:

I was working in NY for a company that hired him and his consulting firm (The Greater Good Group) for some major restructuring analytics. The project team (which included our CEO) was all brought into a room and given a copy of "Thinking", as Kahneman presented an overview of the findings and the book, and how that was going to be used in the project.

The project was an expensive bust.  I remember TGGG sending invoices for $5m-$8m/month without any real oversight.  After about 6-8 months...the whole thing just sorta evaporated without any fanfare, materials, findings...just an accrual for the last invoice.

The book however made a real impact on how I see things and understand others.  It's not the most impactful book for my career (The Innovators Dilemma changed everything), but it's up there.




five MILLION a month?
rgio

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Posted: Mar 28, 2024 - 8:01am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Daniel Kahneman


I was working in NY for a company that hired him and his consulting firm (The Greater Good Group) for some major restructuring analytics. The project team (which included our CEO) was all brought into a room and given a copy of "Thinking", as Kahneman presented an overview of the findings and the book, and how that was going to be used in the project.

The project was an expensive bust.  I remember TGGG sending invoices for $5m-$8m/month without any real oversight.  After about 6-8 months...the whole thing just sorta evaporated without any fanfare, materials, findings...just an accrual for the last invoice.

The book however made a real impact on how I see things and understand others.  It's not the most impactful book for my career (The Innovators Dilemma changed everything), but it's up there.


ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 10:58pm

Daniel Kahneman
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow is great and it's available in every library so you should check it out/listen to it.
  • The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis, is about Kahneman and Tversky and is fascinating when explaining some of the research and a little drawn out when talking about their careers together and apart but some of those moments are astonishing and the whole thing is going to be an important document as Kahneman and Tversky become more and more iconic.
  • Nudge, and The Black Swan, are books that wouldn't have been written without Kahneman and they're both really interesting.
  • Freakonomics also wouldn't be a thing without Kahneman; he's a founding partner in what was the Freakonomics Consulting Group. They help philanthropists figure out how to get the most bang for their buck (I think that's the gist of it)

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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 6:37pm

 Steely_D wrote:
 kurtster wrote: HE HATES THESE CANS!!
 
islander

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Posted: Mar 27, 2024 - 6:01pm

Joe Lieberman. 

His legacy will always br the lack of a public option in the ACA - the closest America has ever been to a first world health care standard for all of its citizens.

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Posted: Mar 21, 2024 - 7:29am

 kurtster wrote:
Man this guy was a busy actor! That's a HUGE resume of film and TV roles. 

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Posted: Mar 21, 2024 - 2:42am

 kurtster wrote:

HE HATES THESE CANS!!
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Posted: Mar 20, 2024 - 10:03pm

M. Emmet Walsh
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Posted: Mar 18, 2024 - 1:51pm

Steve Harley
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Posted: Mar 13, 2024 - 2:03pm

“An important piece of the low end theory”: T.M. Stevens, bass legend and session pro who performed and recorded with the likes of Steve Vai, James Brown, Bootsy Collins, and the Pretenders, dies at 72


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Posted: Mar 13, 2024 - 7:36am



'Man in the Iron Lung's' family release statement following his death aged 78 (msn.com)

78 years in that contraption and still became a lawyer and published author.  
ScottFromWyoming

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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 11:39am

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He was a big part of early Waterboys too


I talked to him just after he made the jump. I thought he'd made a huge mistake, but he was philosophical about it, if World Party didn't work out, he'd do something else. I thought that was a pretty healthy attitude. 


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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 7:04am

 miamizsun wrote:
in my youth i loved the raspberries...
rip eric

Yup the sounds of high school.   

Beez

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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 6:50am

 rtrt wrote:


He was a big part of early Waterboys too


Yep.....
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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 5:52am

rgio

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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 4:38am

 Steely_D wrote:

Eric Carmen of the Raspberries - now has gone all the way


I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I never put "gone all the way" with one of the early anthems of my youth...



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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 4:35am

 Beez wrote:
Karl Wallinger  - World Party frontman.





He was a big part of early Waterboys too
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Posted: Mar 12, 2024 - 4:10am

 Steely_D wrote:

Eric Carmen of the Raspberries - now has gone all the way




in my youth i loved the raspberries...
rip eric

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