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What’s a good job? – The Daily PPILL #294

What’s a good job? – The Daily PPILL #294

The first time I heard this, was from my good friend Victor, a very long time ago. He was painting her mother’s home at the time, and he told me that the job had a “high degree of feeling of accomplishment”. It stayed with me all this years, and I...
Don’t like the fish – The Daily PPILL #293

Don’t like the fish – The Daily PPILL #293

Right. So that was kind of a lame post yesterday. Sort of dry. Right? I felt it was necessary, because what I really wanted to talk about is the fish chart, and how most management teams and investors don’t like it at first. The fish chart, just like its eatable...
On curve shapes – The Daily PPILL #292

On curve shapes – The Daily PPILL #292

We all know what a line chart is, but besides the basics, there are also a couple of recognized shapes that convey a certain behavior and that are used as a shortcut. I am talking about thinks like “Linear”, Exponential”, the “Hockey...
The idea booth – The Daily PPILL #291

The idea booth – The Daily PPILL #291

It happens to everybody. We wake up and we have this marvelous idea, the solution to all we’ve been battling with for a week. And then, by the time the coffee is brewed, it’s gone. We can’t remember it anymore. The question or where it went, is a...
Scouts into the wild … market – The Daily PPILL #290

Scouts into the wild … market – The Daily PPILL #290

A few days ago, I was listening to an interview with a Game Warden from California. The picture he painted about how drug cartels are “shortening the supply chain”, bringing to the United States their operations, and growing illegal marijuana a few miles...
Doomsday: the incentive perspective – The Daily PPILL #289

Doomsday: the incentive perspective – The Daily PPILL #289

Alright. So a couple of days ago I got a little railed up and got carried away. I think that I did capture what I intuitively felt, my gut feeling. The analysis came shortly after the blog post was already published. This is not uncommon in me, to let my intuition...