Is This Anything? 4
1a) in most companies, how much more power does the CEO have than the next most powerful person? Is it 1.1x, or 2x, or 10x, or 100x?
Does it scale with the number of people in the organization, e.g. (1 + n/10)x where n is the number of people in the org – i.e., the bigger the org, the more that the CEO is over-powered relative to her next subordinate?
1b) same question, but for politics.
2) what % of great actors are great because they have ~no personality? Like, we imagine them as super charismatic hotties because that's what we see from their characters, but they're actually like the undercoat you put on a wall so you can paint something interesting on top?
I buy a good amount of specialty coffee, and always looked at the "tasting notes" section with total bemusement. But then I watched a video by James Hoffman about coffee-bean buying, from which I liberated the following information that may be helpful to others (the video has very little information per minute, but the info is good, hence the liberation):
- fruit words in tasting notes are often (but not always) clueing how acidic a coffee is, and you probably have a preference over how acidic your coffee is, so try to pay attention to that and buy accordingly. The rubric is:
- citrus or berry words = high acid
- apple or pear = some acid
- "transformed fruit" words, e.g. jam or candied orange = low acid
- non-fruit-words, e.g. caramel, treacle, chocolate, nuts = no acidity
- Then, separately, some specialty coffees undergo "dry" or "natural" processing (instead of the usual "washed" processing), which often gives a kind of fermented taste, and Hoffman estimates 40% of drinkers hate that taste (while others love it). You should figure out if you like it or hate it and then buy accordingly, which means:
- a coffee that says "dry" or "natural" process on the bag will usually have this flavor, UNLESS it specifically tells you otherwise
- a coffee described with TROPICAL fruits (e.g. mango, pineapple) is often clueing this flavor
I do personally think that having a descriptive system that reads like a cryptic crossword is not ideal! But then nobody asked me.