Archive: January 2008

Our two previous posts on the effects of long hours on errors and reduced productivity focused on two professions, doctors and lawyers. We picked those two rather than further explore the issue in the military because long hours for doctors...

This is the second in our series of three posts relating to the idea that long hours, substantially over 40 hours per week, lead to reduced cognitive function and poor performance, most notably lower productivity per unit of time. Our...

The IGDA is the International Game Developers Association, which includes all those people who create videogames, from programmers to testers to artists and many, many more. The linked article is a quasi-response to another post in which someone said to...

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” We use this phrase a lot in two contexts: first, we freely admit, and accept, that our plans may not work out as expected,...

Well, the time to start an organization related to “charity ratings” in any way: not right now. GiveWell, mentioned in an earlier post, has admitted to astroturfing charges. (Astroturfing is when you pretend that there’s a grassroots supporters of your...

In refining our vision for the Wolfhound Fund, we’ve come across different ideas that are relevant to our plans but don’t capture the entire idea. In this post, we’ll discuss some other approaches, but note that we will not go...