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By Sam Gutterman
Acting as a free-rider is receiving benefits from others’ actions without contributing one’s fair share of the cost.
By Bob Rietz
The first question is usually the same—“Where do you charge it?”—closely followed by “How far can you go?”
By Sam Gutterman
Two phrases I hear often are “you can only manage what you can measure” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
By Bob Rietz
I put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on my home office door, and my wife knows the reason for it.
By Sam Gutterman
We’ve all experienced it sometime in our lives, maybe more often than we care to admit.
By Bob Rietz
I’ve been bitten by the genealogy bug. Bad. I’ve spent hours upon hours during the past 25 years poring over German baptismal records and New York City passenger ship manifests.
By Sam Gutterman
In these days of a pandemic, climate change, super-high unemployment, and low interest rates, it can be difficult to maintain that future events can be represented by probability distributions. Shocks due to unanticipated disruptions and not-well-behaved trends contribute to this skepticism.
By Bob Rietz
Is it my imagination, or do people’s opinion of a government subsidy depend on whether they are beneficiaries of it?
By Sam Gutterman
Regular readers (thank you, of course) of this column have gotten used to my focus on uncertainties and risks, key aspects of a risk management or estimation process.