From the monthly archives:

January 2010

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Seth Godin, Linchpin

by katemckeon on January 26, 2010 ·

in Books you Need

I was fortunate to receive an advanced copy of Seth Godin’s latest, Linchpin. I had a very hard time writing an appropriate review on Amazon. What others reviewers are raving about is how this book is about doers . . . kind of, but not really. This book is about people who fancy themselves single-handedly [...]

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Margaret Thatcher – We Must Win

by katemckeon on January 19, 2010 ·

in Basic Economics,Mastery

The newsletter this week includes a favorite item from Mrs. Thatcher: “Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.” A few weeks ago the Wall Street journal published an opinion piece worth a revisit. The original piece by Warren Kozak [...]

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Sports Stat of the Week: Old Guns, Young Guns

by katemckeon on January 19, 2010 ·

in Sports Stat of the Week

Sports Stat of the Week It’s all in the numbers…. Never mind what happened Sunday afternoon . . . I turned off the second display in my office and focused on teaching our Advanced Quant class. The students didn’t have to know the Boys were being destroyed by Future Rapper Favre. (Pants on the Ground? [...]

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Numbers for Nerds

by katemckeon on January 1, 2010 ·

in Sports Stat of the Week

If you get excited about numbers, today is a spetacular day. 010110 It is a rare opportunity to present the date in binary form (that’s not the actual binary date however). So just how rare is it? Have you figured out how many times in a century you can represent the date with 1s and [...]

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