a·cu·men [ak-yuh-muhn] noun: keen insight; shrewdness

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Saturday 9 November 2013

11/09/13 The Deceptive Nature of Goaltending


Your eyes can deceive you. Goalies can appear to be extremely poor and extremely excellent in small sample sizes. That doesn't make either thing the truth about a player.

Sunday 3 November 2013

11/03/13 (Don't) Hire Your Friends!


When Twitter's former CEO Evan Williams asked his advisor, Bill Campbell, what the worst thing he could do to screw up the company was, Campbell's answer was simple and to the point.