The Power of Narrative in Forecasting

The job of the forester analyst is to first of all, do a lot of research about what's really happening out there so they basically are getting primary information from surveys. What is happening among practitioners in a given area. And then analyze that that's something people don't really understand what that means but that means to assemble the information into a cohesive whole and figure out what it means. That's a pretty powerful role right whether you're doing it as a forecaster or an analyst for a forecasting firm, or a book author. You're taking a lot of disparate information on disparate headlines and you're kind of repackaged them into a narrative context. It's fantastic to talk to somebody