Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each
question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on
four things from 1 to 5:
directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow),
precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted
mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange
scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean.
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Jim McKelvey no published score: no usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ · coarse estimate ≈4.5/5 from 3 produced feed exchanges record → ← everyone
Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5.
An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression.
The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the
cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only
toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.
Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q in the late eight, or sort of the mid to late eighties, when you took it, I'm thinking, like, the people who would go to Renaissance fairs, or, right, like, it is a, it's like something you would see at, like, ye olde, you know, right, like, some reconstructed, you know, English village from the 15th century, like, what was it about glassblowing? Were you just like, this sounds cool?
A The thing that captivated me about glass was the material itself. It is this amazing material, and especially when it's hot, it's like it's alive. So the glassblowing is sort of like dance, except it's this technical dance where you have to manage heat and you gotta manage. But what was also super interesting about glass at the time that I got into it was that nobody was doing it. Because glass factories, which are these big industrial furnaces, Did not let artists come in and just play with the stuff. This was like, you know, going into Ford Motor Company and saying, hey, can I borrow the assembly line? You know, I want to make some car, and I don't know what it is. You know, so there was none of that until these two guys in Ohio basically created this small furnace. And we had one at Wash U, but it was this little junky furnace, and so nobody was doing it. It was a completely open field, which means there was no competition. So I could sell work.
AI assessment note: “The thing that captivated me about glass was the material itself.”
Answered produced feed
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q And what were you going to show him if you had that meeting?
A So we had to show him hardware, which terrified me because he is a notorious design snob, so much that when Bill Gates tried to show him the Microsoft Zoom, he refused to touch it because it was too ugly, right? So I've got this really ugly credit card reader, and I'm about to go in front of Steve Jobs, and I'm like, oh my god, I need to build something pretty. And I need to do it fast. And so I went to the Apple store to steal Steve's idea. I was like, well, what is Steve like? Well, there's a room full of it. It's called the Apple store. So I went down there and looked all around the Apple store and I was like, oh, he likes aluminum.
AI assessment note: “we had to show him hardware... this really ugly credit card reader”
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D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So what did you, once you left, I mean, did you leave, leave, or were you still, did you still have kind of a foot in, at Square? Were you still?
A Well, I'm still on the board. You know, I'm basically the voice of the merchant. I am probably, of the board members, the most connected to people who get their hands dirty, or, you know, bust tables or clean up after other people. Um, I don't, yeah, I won't say why I'm there, because that's not my choice. Uh, they have asked me, and I've stayed. I love this company. I think it's really exciting what we're doing, and I like the fact That, you know, we've not just built Square. We've got Cash App. We've got these two sort of magical ecosystems that are empowering a lot of people, and now we're bringing them together, which is even cooler, you know. So you got one that's consumer and one that's merchant, and that's really powerful.
AI assessment note: “Well, I'm still on the board.”
