Averse, tolerant, seeking Economists talk a lot about risk behaviour– to what extent indivisuals seek, tolerate, or avoid risk, and this goes a long way in explaining why people choose to do things.
An excellent post by Valeria Maltoni discusses the importance of realising when you’ve lost sight of your customers’ interests and feelings. This reminded [...]

I’ve been often slightly confused (maybe in my befuddled “old” age) by social networking sites. My experience with them went a little something like this:
Friendster: New thing, what do you do on here? Is it for dating? Oh, this is kind of cool– you can see the web of how your friends are connected. How [...]

Author’s note: This is, necessarily, full of some fairly broad generalisations, but it is going somewhere– the subject matter is really broad, and I’m interested in your thoughts– in the comments. I’ll happily admit when (rather than if) I’m wrong.
Without, hopefully, making strong generalizations, (Africa is, after all a continent comprised of 53 countries, larger [...]

Game timeLeaving Swakopmund and civilisation behind, we head off for two days to a rather unusual game park– Etosha.
Think of the Black Rock Desert, not nearly as hard, far more salty, and surrounded by arid savannah with a few water holes. Here there are a wide variety of antelopes, from teeny tiny Steenboks up to [...]

and in more ways than one!
Sorry for the long and slowness on the update. Since coming to London I’ve had…

Long hours
Long commute
Limited Internet access at work (it’s an investment bank…)
Super-limited Internet access at “home” (Imagine a 64K ISDN line shared by a 100 unit apartment building with DNS servers powered by hamsters on wheels. The [...]

Or close the wall up with our International dead.
In rest there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest reading and travel:
But when the blast of school blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Open the Lib’ries, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with coffee fueled rage;
That lend the pens a terrible aspect;
Let pry through [...]

My first term at Oxford is over. It consisted of six core subjects: Finance I, Strategy I, Managerial Economics, Decision Science (Statistics), Developing Effective Managers (Organisational Behaviour), and Financial Reporting (Accounting).
There were a few amazing lecturers, a few average ones, and a couple of really, unconscionably bad ones. I’ve shared my thoughts on the bad [...]

Exams
I’ve never been terribly bad at exams. They generally don’t stress me out, and I test pretty well. Which is fortunate, due to my extreme procrastination. However, the Oxford exam experience is pretty different. Much more stressful.
First of all, exams are all unidentified. You put a number on them. You do everything in pen (anything [...]

I have absolutely had it with Windows Vista.
(For those of you mostly interested in looking at my pictures and seeing how my life’s going, this is mostly a rant. Ignore it or else just bear with me. I’m trying to get some time to try to capture week 2, though I’m nearly halfway through week [...]

I’ve had my new ThinkPad X61 tablet with Windows Vista for 2 months now, having used it while traveling and prepping for business school. My thoughts.