The Exchanges

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. Full method →

Hal Howard no published score: no usable exchanges on raw tape, and a fair score needs 8+ 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.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Yep. All right, take us back to the, the launch story here. 2014, you're, it sounds like you're killing it at Microsoft, you're, you're having a ton of fun there. What was, what was it like working there, and then why'd you leave?

A Yeah, well, I mean, if you look at my history at Microsoft, I mean, I was there for 20 years and worked on essentially four version one products, and I like sort of building things and building things from scratch, and in 2014, we had reached a point with the Dynamics ERP business where I felt like, hey, I had a great team around me, people that were, were capable of moving the business forward and keeping going forward, and I was interested in starting over again and building something new. So, uh, you know, I looked at opportunities to do that within Microsoft, Felt like the best opportunities existed outside, and so founded my own company and, ah, and went, went for it.

AI assessment note: “I was interested in starting over again and building something new.”

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