Are there unsolvable problems? Does looking at a problem from different points of view help solving it? It’s all about hot dogs. The picture is taken from one of the most famous annual hot dog competitions in the USA. The two guys are two competitors. I may tell you that one of the two is the winner of the competition […]
🌭 How to Use Hot Dogs to Solve Problems
🦠 No, People Gatherings Are Not The Main Cause for COVID-19 Deaths
Who’s Yoyang Gu? Recently I read an interesting article about the leading causes of COVID deaths, according to statistical analysis. Surprisingly population age or lockdown measures are not strong predictors of the number of deaths in a given country; other factors should be considered, as you will see below. The author is Yoyang Gu, a data scientist and practical machine learning expert. […]
🗞 Add The Economist Weekly Articles to Pocket
In the last years, I learned to love Pocket, a service that lets you manage a “read it later” list of articles that you can fill with pieces that interests you. It does a great job in offering a direct, simple and distraction-free experience while reading, and it is perfectly integrated with many devices and browsers, e-book readers included. Talking about reading, The […]
🐖 Saving and Investing 101
Why bother? Many people can agree that saving and investing are complex topics. No one explains why or how you should do any of the two when life is so beautiful once you understand how to trade money for cocktails, massages and expensive dinners. That is especially worrying when considering that, according to a recent study by the National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) found […]
🏁 Why Organization Fails and The Discipline of Execution: The 4DX Methodology
“Seventy per cent of strategic failures are due to poor execution of leadership. It’s rarely for lack of smarts or vision,” – Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. When does this gap come from? Why do so many businesses fail to maintain ambitious promises during planning moments? One of the primary explanations could come to form educational side: every […]
🕸 Network Theory: How Everything’s Connected
Network theory is an important key to working in modern economies. It is possible to identify different types of networks: Informative networks are connections of information objects, like the network of citations between academic papers, world wide web, semantic networks, et cetera. Biological networks represent observable biological systems, like food web, protein interaction networks. Technological networks are designed typically for […]
🧠 Knowledge Management: The 21st Century Firm’s Real Goal | A brief literature review
The importance of knowledge and knowledge management have been rising noticeably in the last decades: firms and organisations value more and more intangible resources and intellectual capital, and more and more competitive advantage is due to the ability of a given company to gain critical insights on the market, as investors well know. According to NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev, […]
💾 The Economics of Big Data: Why, How and What
A New Economy What do oil and data could have in common? They seem to belong to different worlds because an oil refinery is imagined as an industrial cathedral, a place of drama, power and dark recess, usually in the middle of the ocean, creating long shadows its long towers. Despite that, the data and oil industry have much to […]
🛒 How to Run Sales Revenue Analysis and Forecasting With R
I’d probably be the millionth blogger writing it. Still, it’s impossible to deny it: data-driven decision making is essential for every individual or organisation that want to improve efficiency, productivity and returns in life and business. How? Let’s think about an easy example: A typical bookseller is usually aware of the following facts about its last customers: which books they […]
🤷♂️ Why a blog in 2021, anyway?
I clearly remember, doing the first step on the internet when I was 6 or 7, blogs were the main attraction of the web; most famous websites were blogs. I found it hard to find anything else funny on the web; (I can feel some comment from you here, but I swear that my soul was still not corrupted!) Probably […]