Following the overwhelming
feedback to Notes No 68 (copied below) it clearly warranted a follow-up.
Only Note No 49 (‘My Movember
Moment’) attracted more responses, but then Note 49 was a particularly
special one. It appears to be regarded, fairly equally, as a marking a
spectacular highpoint/low point in this blogs short history (the view usually
dependent upon the gender of the reader).
Many of you shared your views on
Byron’s life lessons. Some of you even shared lessons of your own. Give me time
and I will collate all these into an appropriately pithy collection, which I
will publish, claiming as my own, ensuring I appear clever and far wiser than I
am in reality.
As far as I know, only one
person however took the time to check just how good Byron Wein was at his
predictions.
That person is Frank Rogalla.
Frank, for those of you who don’t know him, is the Head of Innovation at
Aqualia. He is easy to spot. He is 8 foot tall, speaks 15 different languages
and looks astonishingly like Christopher Reeve (aka Superman). I don’t believe
he can fly, but he can see through most technical issues with a superman-like
laser vision, of which I am in awe.
He also has far, far, too much
time on his hands.
Frank did some research into
Byron’s top ten predictions for the last 6 years. His findings, and the web
links, are at the bottom of this email. The conclusion was that Byron scored
between 1.5 and 8 out of 10, with an average of 4.5 over the last 6 years. I
find that staggeringly impressive. Those are odds I will take.
We have also been able to
confirm that Byron is 81. He is certainly taking his ‘Life Lesson No 20’ to
heart! Long live Byron!
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