Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

No, it’s not a doctor giving you the wrong medicine, but it’s definitely someone who should know better making an error that will cost countless users a lot of time and money. This alert from a website run by Thomson Reuters manages to do both: This is malpractice. Long passwords work better than short ones.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. Most airplane crashes were not caused by a single error, but typically by multiple errors… hence the phrase “a cascade of errors.”. It turns out that the concept of an error cascade is also used in the medical field.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 24, 2019

This is correcting the website so that the next person who reads it won’t see the same error. Compounding these totally different sorts of apologies is the very industrial idea of winning. This is the affirmative act of making sure it doesn’t happen again. This is fixing the railing so the next visitor won’t trip and fall.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Compounding the shortage is what numerous studies have pointed to: a growing skill gap between job requirements and the available labor pool. It also reduces errors because the AR display provides explicit guidance overlaid on the work being done, delivered on demand. A 2015 Deloitte study estimates that there will be 3.5

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Many of the errors familiar from the 50-year history of credit reports — inaccuracy, discrimination — are compounded in the field of consumer scoring. But the reality is that consumer scoring is a rapidly growing field, with companies now scraping websites to gather profile data that is sold to third parties.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Errors compound, causing unnecessary traffic slowdowns at best and multiple-vehicle pileups at worst. The legal system is playing an urgent game of catch-up, focused on the perhaps lengthy interim period when autonomous vehicles share the roads with distracted, drunk, and error-prone humans. traffic deaths.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I first heard of the phrase “cascade of errors” from a friend of mine who was a private pilot. Most airplane crashes were not caused by a single error, but typically by multiple errors… hence the phrase “a cascade of errors.”. It turns out that the concept of an error cascade is also used in the medical field.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In 2014, a bout of near or real recession in Germany and the US could kick start the price discovery mechanism again, which will help us to start healing the deep wounds left by years of policymakers compounding their errors with round after round of extend-and-pretend. Getting to the bottom is good in one sense: the only way is up.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The alphabet is a miracle, one that is compounded by books. This compression isn’t done in error, it’s something they work hard on. And the lessons we learn from this cornerstone of modern culture apply to organizations, meetings, tech, politics and almost everything we do together.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

However, when all of the predictions are averaged together, it’s expected that the errors will cancel out. The problem, though, is that aggregation doesn’t get rid of any errors that are shared across the people being aggregated. After all, for every economist having a bad day, another is likely having a good day.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The compounding effect of risk-averse behaviors across thousands of individuals — each preferring known working patterns over the perceived risk introduced by change — generates overwhelming organizational inertia. Would he point out the obvious error to the group, or would he go along with the majority?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

It’s unreasonable to expect the architects of the strategies and practices that led to your downfall to see the error of their ways, or the right path forward. The company’s problems were compounded by the decline of traditional photo stores and the rise of the internet and discount camera retailers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Worse, as data grows, these problems compound. Small font sizes, complex figures and equations, the use of jargon, and an emphasis on the modeling process instead of insights and explanations are common errors when presenting analyses. Without the right analytic approach, no amount of investment will translate to insights.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We double- and triple-checked the dataset for other patterns that would indicate some fundamental error or data problem. We went back through the published literature to see if we were making new or strange measurement or specification choices. We were not. We found none. We could not.

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MishTalk

APRIL 3, 2014

Such errors accumulate and it is possible to sustain such a distorted capital structure for quite some time if ever more money is printed. In every instance, fractional reserve lending greatly compounds the secondary problems. But in reality, the saved real resources are insufficient to maintain it. must be addressed as well.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

To overcome these obstacles, political statisticians build models that try to correct polling errors by using data from previous elections. This method is based on the underlying assumption that current and historical polls suffer from the same type of errors.

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