Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

"... Quantitative Writing ..."

For my econ blog I want to evaluate the fall in GDP that may follow from increased unemployment due to parts of the economy shutting down in response to the pandemic. A well-known link between unemployment and GDP is "Okun's law"; Google led me to an impressively useful PDF by Miles B. Cahill, on working out Okun's law in a spreadsheet.

I looked up Cahill and on his home page found a link to Teaching with Spreadsheets. Well, I had to go there! The link leads to several related pages. I want to look through it all.

In addition, the sidebar contains several links I couldn't resist visiting, including
I sure don't want to misplace these links!

2 comments:

The Arthurian said...

At the "quantitative writing" link there is some mention on "ill-structured" problems. For more on ill- and well-structured problems see 1957: When Machines that Think, Learn, and Create Arrived at Conversable Economist.

Andre Surkis said...

Unfortunately, GDP is rapidly falling and affects all economic spheres of our life ...