Peter Lewis
@plewis.bsky.social
NYC
business writing: thedrawingboard.net
other writing: medium.com/@plewis67
business writing: thedrawingboard.net
other writing: medium.com/@plewis67
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
lads i found ANOTHER Table of Impossible Summary Statistics in a "green economics" paper 🚩
Can you see the problem?
Can you see the problem?
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
“sort by slay factor” 😂
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“sort by slay factor” 😂
“The lad is brilliantly clever and rather overstrung. A pity. I like lads to be manly and only technically gifted. Aesthetics have no place in modern life. That is why ferro-concrete has come into its own.”
[Gladys Mitchell]
[Gladys Mitchell]
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“The lad is brilliantly clever and rather overstrung. A pity. I like lads to be manly and only technically gifted. Aesthetics have no place in modern life. That is why ferro-concrete has come into its own.”
[Gladys Mitchell]
[Gladys Mitchell]
I understand why psychographics can be helpful in branding and marketing, but I'm not sure there's any way to explain them on a corporate earnings call without sounding like a babbling idiot
$BBWI
$BBWI
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I understand why psychographics can be helpful in branding and marketing, but I'm not sure there's any way to explain them on a corporate earnings call without sounding like a babbling idiot
$BBWI
$BBWI
good thread
Just a very fundamental point:
People use quantitative data in order to debunk qualitative impressions.
But when the data we are discussing is putative welfare measures (e.g. real income or wealth, GDP per capita, etc), the *qualitative* measures are foundational, the quantitative mere proxies. 1/
People use quantitative data in order to debunk qualitative impressions.
But when the data we are discussing is putative welfare measures (e.g. real income or wealth, GDP per capita, etc), the *qualitative* measures are foundational, the quantitative mere proxies. 1/
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
good thread
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After a too-long hiatus from blogging, I have a new post up, as part of what I hope will be a period series looking at what our crim legal stats really mean.
To start, one of the most important but messiest to actually understand and use: recidivism.
A mess to think about, and a mess to measure.
To start, one of the most important but messiest to actually understand and use: recidivism.
A mess to think about, and a mess to measure.
The Worst Statistic: Recidivism
In the first post in what will be a period series looking at our official crime stats and what they mean, here I dig into “recidivism,” an incredibly important number that is measured p…
johnfpfaff.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
After a too-long hiatus from blogging, I have a new post up, as part of what I hope will be a period series looking at what our crim legal stats really mean.
To start, one of the most important but messiest to actually understand and use: recidivism.
A mess to think about, and a mess to measure.
To start, one of the most important but messiest to actually understand and use: recidivism.
A mess to think about, and a mess to measure.
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Canadian crime is something else
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Canadian crime is something else
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we are breaking new ground in people's inability to discern between descriptive and prescriptive statements
There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are:
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways.
2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
we are breaking new ground in people's inability to discern between descriptive and prescriptive statements
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MICROSOFT, NVIDIA AND ANTHROPIC ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
MICROSOFT, NVIDIA AND ANTHROPIC ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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when the ai bubble bursts it's gonna be a whole Project™ to tease apart neural-nets-the-technology from chatbots-the-product-class in the public consciousness given that these companies have been trying their hardest to confuse everybody about this distinction for the last several years
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
when the ai bubble bursts it's gonna be a whole Project™ to tease apart neural-nets-the-technology from chatbots-the-product-class in the public consciousness given that these companies have been trying their hardest to confuse everybody about this distinction for the last several years
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make something new! here im gonna take literally 15 seconds: a donkey wants to be a rodeo horse. songs by tyler childers.
We get our first, brief look at Dwayne Johnson as Maui – before he turns into an eagle. But, more importantly, Catherine Laga‘aia sets sail in the live-action ‘Moana’ trailer.
Make Way For Live-Action Moana
We get our first, brief look at Dwayne Johnson as Maui – before he turns into an eagle. But, more importantly, Catherine Laga‘aia sets sail in the live-action ‘Moana’ trailer.
www.vulture.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
make something new! here im gonna take literally 15 seconds: a donkey wants to be a rodeo horse. songs by tyler childers.
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I could never be an X-Man because I wouldn't be able to pick a name & stick with it
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I could never be an X-Man because I wouldn't be able to pick a name & stick with it
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What if the great filter is immortality and there’s just scores of immortal but ultimately stagnant and happy planets out there
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What if the great filter is immortality and there’s just scores of immortal but ultimately stagnant and happy planets out there
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they also like to tell you what you talk about when you talk about something.
If there’s one thing sportscasters love, it’s to actually have spoken with this player yesterday
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
they also like to tell you what you talk about when you talk about something.
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Pathetic that painting restorers clean off centuries' worth of grime, but don't make it look like the people in the paintings have handlebar moustaches and then take photographs and show them to me.
November 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Pathetic that painting restorers clean off centuries' worth of grime, but don't make it look like the people in the paintings have handlebar moustaches and then take photographs and show them to me.
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nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
nothing says you’re kicking ass at Buddhism quite like having an insatiable desire for something
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basically believe that this mostly depends on when you got Properly Online - before a certain cut-off your normal internet experience was high agency/high effort, but it eventually became low agency/low effort, and it's impossible to create a social media experience that caters to both groups
yes I think @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com has talked about this, it's deeply alienating to find out that the vast majority of people do not want the curated timeline / engagement / discussion version of social media that I find to be the only good version of the experience
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
basically believe that this mostly depends on when you got Properly Online - before a certain cut-off your normal internet experience was high agency/high effort, but it eventually became low agency/low effort, and it's impossible to create a social media experience that caters to both groups
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My my, hey hey…🎵
better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My my, hey hey…🎵
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November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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TFW the data are so fraudulent* you have to learn how to create colour-coded spreadsheets in R to show all the patterns 😂
*allegedly. (is this enough? don't sue me xx)
*allegedly. (is this enough? don't sue me xx)
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
TFW the data are so fraudulent* you have to learn how to create colour-coded spreadsheets in R to show all the patterns 😂
*allegedly. (is this enough? don't sue me xx)
*allegedly. (is this enough? don't sue me xx)
“The only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of it”
from Lancelot (1977), by Walker Percy
from Lancelot (1977), by Walker Percy
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“The only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of it”
from Lancelot (1977), by Walker Percy
from Lancelot (1977), by Walker Percy
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Drop the Letterboxd account
Pope Leo XIV may have spent most of his career between Peru and Italy, but he remains an American at heart.
Vatican Reveals Pope Leo’s Top Four Favorite Movies
The Chicago-born pontiff apparently has a love for American films.
trib.al
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Drop the Letterboxd account