Comments for Brian Crouch

Comment on Have to disagree with Chris Pirillo on this one by Brian Crouch

Brian Crouch — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:31:18 +0000

I have read “The Black Swan” by Taleb, which touched upon some of the same concepts. I definitely agree with you, the correlation/causation fallacy has driven more superstition and delusion than I think can be measured…
We’re all “meaning making machines,” desperate to find some meaning in every instance, good or bad.

I think the only rational approach is to realize the perils of the randomness we are in and take intelligent action to defend against chaos. It won’t always be effective but it’s better than wishful thinking.

Thanks for your comment!

Comment on Have to disagree with Chris Pirillo on this one by Bruce Wilson

Bruce Wilson — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:13:17 +0000

Have you read “Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Some wackiness in his thinking, to be sure, but the big, basic, important point that I took away was: if 1,000,000 people follow their own “method” for gaming the stock market (or methods for gaming any system) random chance dictates that a few of them will be successful…over a period of years, even. So it appears to everyone that they have tapped into a fundamental law of nature, but they have instead simply been lucky many rolls of the dice in a roll (improbable, but necessarily possible given enough people rolling dice). This is what I think of when I think of Chris’s experience (nice fellow, by the way). I expect we’ve all been lucky, then wondered “why?” and we have to speculate that there’s a purpose behind it. Having said that, I like the whole “when opportunities arise, execute!” vibe you have going in this post.

Comment on Shark repellent: “The quickest 10% I ever lost” by briancrouch

briancrouch — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:13:12 +0000

Shark repellent: “The quickest 10% I ever lost” – http://www.briancrouch.com/2010/02/shark...

Comment on Parody from in-the-works play “Limited Characters” by briancrouch

briancrouch — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:55:06 +0000

Musical interlude from the upcoming play “Limited Characters” – via @twitoaster http://www.briancrouch.com/2010/01/upcom...

Comment on Job creation: ultimately, an act of will by Brian Crouch

Brian Crouch — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:46:12 +0000

Hi Kirste,

You are “called to help others identify, pursue, & achieve their dreams and/or find their ‘dream-job.’ ”

You mentioned George Bailey after that, which made me ponder what that would’ve meant if you were part of that story…. In George’s case, he knew exactly what dream-job he wanted (building skyscrapers, “shake off the dust of the town”), but he had little to no help in pursuing that (circumstances sure didn’t help)… if he could have been free to pursue, he almost surely would’ve achieved. Deep beliefs about his obligations to his family & town that held him there, values.

I imagine in your calling you’re going to often encounter people who have identified a dream, but face some obstacle that, once examined, is really the core of their being.

BTW: http://twitter.com/briancrouch/status/6918858992

Comment on Job creation: ultimately, an act of will by Kirsten Mitchell

Kirsten Mitchell — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:21:57 +0000

Brian,
I was very inspired by your insight-creating jobs in one’s own community really is the ultimate form of giving back to it. My dream for giving back to my community runs almost parallel to yours. I am called to help others identify, pursue, & achieve their dreams and/or find their “dream-job.” To create jobs and maintain them why that’s George Bailey level Sainthood!
Thank you for the great tweet & link!
@kirste

Comment on Three ideas for Microsoft Surface by Brian Crouch

Brian Crouch — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:05:53 +0000

There hasn’t been proof of concept, these were ideas I jotted down after a networking function in which I met Eric Havir from MS Surface. He and I also talked about the QR Code idea, and he did mention that the optical scan of a mobile device was a challenge for a backlit device such as Zune or iPod.

A Kindle or another ebook reader should not have that problem, as a generated code would be as clear as one printed on paper.

Comment on Three ideas for Microsoft Surface by anon

anon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:37:30 +0000

With respect to the second idea, are you proposing that the Surface read QR codes (exactly as it currently reads MS’s proprietary Identity Tags), or are you proposing that the Surface display QR codes for other devices to read?

Both are quite neat ideas with interesting possibilities, although in the former case it’s not clear to me whether the visual resolution would be high enough to accurately read such codes: are you aware of any proof of concept work here?

Comment on Scrooge: It’s how you finish that counts… by tandembiker

tandembiker — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:08:29 +0000

@briancrouch Me a scrooge?! Na! Just because I don’t like fruitcake I mean really.

Comment on Scrooge: It’s how you finish that counts… by Judy Dunn

Judy Dunn — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:52:01 +0000

Brian,

I often wondered what “A Christmas Carol the Sequel” would have read like. But them it might have been rather boring, Scrooge going around doing all that good all the time.

And now you have given me something new to think about (again). Calling someone a Scrooge is the highest of compliments because it means they recognized their shortfalls and changed, becoming a better person in the process.

What a holiday lesson. Now are you going to write the sequel?