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rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please.

Same thing here, so maybe my 2 cents can help; Make three broad stages for every project (research & design, implementation, knowledge transfer & communication) and then undertake each phase as one project with its own challenges; that way I fool myself into finishing it.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: Random Promotions and the Gervais Principle

In a "normal" situation then, youll get that someone whos always wanted the job as the first pick to fill it, wich makes the randomnized promotions all that much desirable.

Also, the stickness of the promotion in your comment, sounds pretty random too. In the end, the proposition of "... using random processes to mitigate the pathological effects of deterministic models is extremely solid..." seems to hold.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What sorts of consulting work do you do?

I have met some very high paid consultants who doesnt look smart at all(smartly dressed, if any);

Knowing stuff and being able to do something useful with it (AND sell it) looks pretty smart to me. :)

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What sorts of consulting work do you do?

What i wanted to know more about is (and i do now thanks to you): what does someone can sell, what does a business needs so bad that it reaches an outsider and pays him to get. Also interesting, your take on the "consulting ladder", when i think about doing consulting, i try to find what could i offer, but i wasnt seeing it as a process to find your place. Thanks a lot Daniel, as usual i got to learn something of what you say.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: What are you reading?

Very dense, the kind of book that a book geek writes.

When i read The DaVinci Code years later, it feeled like a very decaffeinated (really "de-lots of things") version of Foucaults Pendulum. It also feels like it spawned this sort of genre of history-mystery-conspiracy-airport-and-beach-novel.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What sorts of consulting work do you do?

"I do a lot of high-end stuff now,"

What you mean by high-end? im asking because im looking into consulting as a career option, and want to know what people's doing. Any hindsight will be appreciated.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: What are you reading?

Borges its great, i find his tales super-concentrated: one tale mentions people or stories that can spawn hundreds of other tales or biographies, and that leaves me wishing to read more of him to see if that story is told somewhere else.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: What are you reading?

I will. I took GEB and leave it 200 pages from the end, it is great but i keep feeling im not getting something. Im starting over now. And "le ton..." would be next.

rodrigo | 16 years ago | on: What are you reading?

Halfway into "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and im liking it so far, specially its hindsights on philosophy and rationality.

"Beautiful Data", a couple of chapters, i like the "Beautiful" series cause you can take any chapter as a more or less isolated topic.

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