if memory serves
An alternative to IIRC, which takes one more letter to type and two more syllables to say.
An alternative to IIRC, which takes one more letter to type and two more syllables to say.
The vote gaps in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania were each more than 100k, but then so were the number of voters erroneously removed from blue-district rolls, ims.
by WhatwasIsaying February 03, 2025
If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025
Voters were concerned about inflation so they voted for the party that blocked anti-price-gouging legislation, went to Saudi Arabia to reduce oil supply to protect oil company profits, were in the White House at the start of the last recession, and added to the national debt for the sake of stock buybacks. MIMS
by WhatwasIsaying January 03, 2025
As AI improves, fewer people will be able to demonstrate by virtue of their intelligence that they are not computers.
As AI becomes better at diagnosing than doctors, Turing's Lemma applies. Customer service is a profession in which Turing's Lemma does not yet apply, unfortunately.
by WhatwasIsaying February 05, 2025
How was I supposed to know?
by WhatwasIsaying February 27, 2025
In blackjack, you try to get as close to 21 wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
On the Price is Right, you win if you're closest to the price wogo.
by WhatwasIsaying July 16, 2023
Success in life depends largely on your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.
A somewhat depressing observation that the best ideas don’t necessarily win out in the end, but depend on salesmanship, including thinking on one’s feet and a compelling in-person presentation.
Source: Prof. Patrick Winston
A somewhat depressing observation that the best ideas don’t necessarily win out in the end, but depend on salesmanship, including thinking on one’s feet and a compelling in-person presentation.
Source: Prof. Patrick Winston
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025