Business

agile scrum

designed for teams of ten or fewer members, who break their work into goals that can be completed within time-boxed iterations, called sprints, no longer than one month and most commonly two weeks. The scrum team assess progress in time-boxed daily meetings of 15 minutes or less --wikipedia

Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter

Also calibrated: Twitter as a company.

current rate of inflation, US

"The annual inflation rate in the US accelerated to 8.5% in March of 2022, the highest since December of 1981" -- tradingeconomics.com

Cash Forex Group: Trading Academy

Training in foreign currency trading. "The CFX Academy ensures the best possible chance of success for experienced traders and those brand new to forex." Calibrated by request.

Klaus Schwab

German engineer and economist best known as the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum --wikipedia

Trading Beyond the Matrix, by Van K. Tharp

You'll change your level of consciousness so that you can avoiding trading out of fear and greed and move toward higher levels such as acceptance or joy. --amazon.com

fracking, hydraulic fracturing

Costs vs. benefits

cost/benefit of electricity generation methods

Considers all factors, including pollution, environmental impact on animal habitats, human safety. production costs, uptime, maintenance, availability of fuels, etc. The calibrated results can change over time with technological innovation or depletion of nonrenewable resources, for example.

The Last Word on Power, by Tracy Goss

Executive Re-Invention for Leaders Who Must Make the Impossible Happen

renting vs. buying housing

Request: There seems advantages and disadvantages to both. Which one calibrates the highest?

Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin)

person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and... devised the first blockchain database --wikipedia

General Data Protection Regulation (EU)

Academic experts who participated in the formulation of the GDPR wrote that the law "is the most consequential regulatory development in information policy in a generation. The GDPR brings personal data into a complex and protective regulatory regime.""

Jeff Zucker

Former president of CNN Worldwide, former president and CEO of NBC Universal. Calibrated for social impact.

Video: China Has Already COLLAPSED! You Just Don't Know It Yet...

"Today, I’m going to show you my deep dive into the reality that is the Chinese economy, and the reasons why its collapse has already begun." -- Stoic Finance

Jordan Belfort

The real-life Wolf of Wall Street, social impact. For his crimes, he was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison, one month in rehab, $110 million in restitution --wikipedia