Jill Lepore's takedown of disruption kind of misses the mark, kind of...
Jill Lepore had the cover of the New Yorker this month with her piece ‘The Disruption Machine’. The piece has been marketed as a ‘takedown’ of both the disruption dogma that pervades across Silicon...
View ArticleMy post on the Qwilr blog: A/B testing when the stakes are high or the...
I've got a post up today on the Qwilr blog where I discuss how to be as data-driven as possible when you can't be properly data-driven.Qwilr are the awesome tech startup I've been working with for the...
View ArticleChristopher Pyne managed to be a sexist jerk and woefully uninformed about...
Wednesday night on 7.30, Christopher Pyne was asked about the potential for his proposed de-regulation of university fees to hurt women and the poor. The exchange was (emphasis mine):SARAH FERGUSON:...
View ArticleJoe Hockey becomes next cabinet minister to be get his facts badly wrong
Today Treasurer Joe Hockey said that his proposed increases in the fuel excise were fair because the poor owned fewer cars and drove less than wealthier people (my emphasis):“I don’t think that a...
View ArticleIt's official: Treasurer Joe Hockey doesn't understand what progressive...
Well, the numbers are in folks, and it would appear the Treasurer of our country doesn't understand what progressive taxation is.As I wrote yesterday, Joe Hockey got himself into logical, factual and...
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