confession

[desh]

I'm usually pretty good at acknowledging someone's obvious superiority to me in a given field. But 1% of me still can't completely let go of the idea that I could've been Nate Silver, and the only reason I'm not is because he thought of the idea for that site first and works harder than I do.

This despite the fact that I only ever took one prob/stat class ever and it's by far my weakest area of math.

Comments

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Did I ever mention how I basically came up with the idea for iTunes in 1998 or so and didn't pursue it? Cuz I kick myself now and again.

[msschein.livejournal.com]

http://wondermark.com/541/

Also, there's a lot to be said for not having to work so hard.

[desh]

Ha, nice.

Except it's worse for me because I didn't even have the idea first. I just could have had the idea.

[(Anonymous)]

Besides, if you were going to replace Nate Silver, you'd rather be working here (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/).

[desh]

I sort of mean the whole thing, the BP part and the 538 part.

[myq.livejournal.com]

Once, I was playing Playstation, and I said to my friend "This is pretty cool, but they should make something better." And then like a year later, Sony came out with Playstation 2...

[desh]

Dammmmmnnnn. Could've been you!