Rachel’s lack of research and planning led her to become, as Gen Zers say, “delulu” (meaning delusional) about her ability to support herself. This mindset allowed her to get a little too careless with her credit card use. Have a Realistic Budget During her conversation with Hammer,...
Most businesses want to expand the targeted market by looking for a customer base with a broad demographic spectrum. In this case, the company must use its best marketing methods in different platforms to achieve such targets. You can also put the message you want to deliver to your targeted ...
In Memoriam Michael Hammer April 1948–September 2008 Even the most mundane work can be given meaning and value for those who perform it if they understand how it benefits, even in the simplest of ways, the lives of others. Process-centered work can help satisfy everyone’s hunger for ...
I lost meaning and value and largely retreated from the public life I had built within the field. For the May 2014 issue of Little Shoppe of Horrors (#32) I wrote my first proper feature for the long-running Hammer magazine, on ‘The Original/First Hammer House of Theatre’. Hammer had...
with an extreme disassociation in some cases. But we are still in the same place psychologically with the same neurobiology we have had for a while now, meaning we work within cognitive biases that accumulate from familiar and cultural messages. So, why are we are surprised at the slow-as-...
Derived from two Danish words meaning “play well,” Lego is not just the top toy from the year you were born, but the top toy of the last century. What began in 1949 as a set of interlocking red and white blocks had become a veritable cultural phenom by the late 1960s, complete wi...
One crucial point, we will perform feature importance (meaning how indicative it is for the movement of GS) on absolutely every feature (including this one) later on and decide whether we will use it. More on that later. For the purpose of creating accurate sentiment prediction we will use...
The unfortunate thing is that much of this research has wide error margins, meaning that the conclusions are dubious at best. Yet conclusions are seized on by politicians and media propagandists to justify absurd prohibitions. In Hammond’s case, at the moment I think he is casting around for...
Purplebricks and Winkworth report surge in demand after cut in stamp duty and lifting of lockdown measures boost housing market Chancellor Rishi Sunak raised the stamp duty threshold until March 31, meaning those who buy properties worth less than £500,000 before then will pay the Exchequer ...
Finding meaning in the Fed’s new financial index; Here we go again Robin Wigglesworth – Financial Times Last week the Federal Reserve revealed yet another financial conditions index. By Alphaville’s count, this is roughly the 6000th gauge of how relaxed or restrictive financial conditions are....