How to Be Exactly Wrong
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Try to avoid false precision in your stock picking.
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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Time to put on those tin foil hats again
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You shouldn't have said what you said in that errant message. Now how do you make amends?
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In this issue, my colleague Chad Dickerson unveils his "Top 20 IT Mistakes" based on some unhappy lessons he and others have learned. This list is so much fun that I couldn't resist adding my own: five common mistakes that business people make when dealing with IT. Each of these derives from bitter experience. And in three of the cases, I was personally responsible for the bad judgment (please don't ask which three!).
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If there&#39;s ever a book called How to Write a Bad Movie, here are a couple of rules that must make the list: 1. In any given life-or-death situation with several possible courses of action, the protagonist must always pick the one least likely to be chosen
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Idiot 2.0 passes judgement on idiots This crock crock by CNET blogger Steve Tobak must take the award for 2007's most self-righteous, sanctimonious bollocks. Read on:â¦
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Sharpen your knowledge of Foolish fundamentals.
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We tend to concentrate on deals that have been cleverly played or defended, but in the real world everyone makes mistakes. When an opponent does something wrong, you must be ready to benefit.
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A few "harmless habits" can rob you of buckets of cash over time. Here's how to win back your money ... and sanity.
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Idiot 2.0 passes judgement on idiots This crock crock by CNET blogger Steve Tobak must take the award for 2007's most self-righteous, sanctimonious bollocks. Read on in wonder:â¦
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How to steer clear of "free checking" pitfalls.
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One angry word begets another, and one Fool tries to sort out who's closer to the truth.
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George Kottaras expects perfection from himself. That's not surprising. "I get down on myself," the catcher said last week in Pawtucket. "But that's how people are. You fail and you're like . . . I just get to the point where I get corrective actions going. This happens, so what do I have to do to correct ...
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Reverse your thinking to find opportunity.
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One of the tongue-in-cheek rules that we column-writers have is, &quot;Often wrong, never in doubt.&quot; Take a stand, don&#39;t duck and weave too much.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.