And it's only 2014! I've been starting the new Freakonomics book -
Think Like A Freak, by Levitt and Dubner, and I'm reminded of just how good the
series is. It was the other who originally put me on to these guys, and
I'm forever grateful, because it's introduced me to a new way of
thinking. If you can account for all the variables, you can run a strictly
numbers/data game and learn so much about the world. Once you put aside
ethics and human feeling, there's a lot to be ascertained about the world, and
it's quite interesting! The first 2 books in the series were mostly case
studies and extrapolations, but the third one in the series blows it wide open
by introducing you to the thinking methods behind the methodology. That's
very interesting. What I've gotten out of it is that conventional wisdom
is wrong most of the time. Very wrong. So why do we place so much emphasis
on it? There's so much that's unknown, the future is essentially a
gamble, and we need to acknowledge that. But it does make me query the
use of heavy statistical analysis and it's applicability. Perhaps it's because it's
using the best data and all the relevant measures? But yeah, I'll need to
change how I view the world. It'll stop me from getting too caught up in
things. And it also helps where I've gone wrong in the past! We
just don't know! I don't know! There, I said it! Haha!
Guitar ran very well last night! I need to put away some time for just a
long session. Something that will last longer than 40 minutes or what
not. I want to get my sweep picking chops back. Although on an
acoustic with high action, that's a bit of a tough ask.
It's got me thinking! With all that's gone on at the moment, there has to
be some sort of involvement in the clandestine. There has to be a way to
hit it where it hurts. But that may all just be fantasy. Though it
shouldn't have to be.
Can you believe it's almost August? This year is going quickly. Too
quickly. Okay, I suppose I better get on with some work today. And
it's getting there, slowly! After all the brilliance of this week, I'm
sort of running on empty here now. Everything just sort of peters and
sputters out at some point, doesn't it? Even us. I'm feeling very
tired. Oh crap, I have a long meeting this afternoon, I don't know how
I'm going to stay awake for it.
Let's call it a day.
Joaquin out.
