The New York Times’ Peter Coy is “a veteran business and economics columnist.” Today he sent a newsletter out that was headlined “Effective Altruism Is Flawed. But What’s the Alternative?” I have thoughts. Coy writes, Of course, if you’ve read anything I’ve written here, you may sense that “rigorous academic…
Month: June 2024
ISBM article on my ideas about the “Cult of Prediction”
It was a great honor to share the central themes of my book Fatal Certainty with such an accomplished group of practitioners and academics, exactly the sort of people who can help to change the mindset driving quantitative (and even older-style non-quantitative) single-point forecasting, and it’s even a greater honor…
ISBM 2024 Academic Conference Presentation
I am honored and happy to be presenting some of the ideas from my forthcoming book, “Fatal Certainty,” this afternoon at the 2024 Joint Academic Conference & Members Meeting, “Foresight in B2B: the Next 40 Years in B2B Marketing,” at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets at the…