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Making the numbers move
A number you can move with your own hands teaches more than a number you only read.
From Wu
Letters from the house. One person thinking out loud about how to grow, decide, and live, written so the kids could read it at twenty-five and feel talked with. Some letters are public; the rest stay private. Start with the latest, or browse below.
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Good data display is not decoration; it is an argument you can check with your own eyes.
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The numbers and the experience of living through them are almost never the same story.
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A country gets one demographic window, and Vietnam is standing in the middle of its own right now.
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What you measure is what you optimize, so be careful you are measuring the thing you actually want.
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Most decisions do not need certainty, they need a cheap way to be wrong.