clairvoyance

It's a sign of weakness, and only should be pursued when the company is in real trouble, not based on attempted clairvoyance.

Do you fire someone because they didn't have the clairvoyance of realizing that some lock somewhere had too much contention?

It's a failure of clairvoyance, you mean.

Only serious and totally informed discussions by people who have clairvoyance levels over 9000...

My dad was kind of bummed, and probably would have picked a different name if he had a bit of accessible clairvoyance.

How dare politicians risk lives by allowing this trend to develop, that you somehow saw as inevitable through your powers of clairvoyance.

That means you can get smart analytics even on things you didn't have the clairvoyance to start tracking 6 months ago, or didn't have the resources to insert tracking code in.

It's far from providing you clairvoyance to your subject of interests -- business.

Why are you assigning some sort of 'perfect knowledge' or clairvoyance to VCs?

VCs are human, you can't expect them to have the clairvoyance required to only invest in eventually successful companies and only turn down eventual failures.

But this success was reached without the benefit of clairvoyance.

If one had complete clairvoyance and absolute understanding of every element in a system then there would be no estimates, no probabilities, merely outcomes foretold in advance.

Whole essay is incoherent mess written by one of those lonesome “no-bullshiter” who gets the job done but is so pulled down by modern day bureaucracy that even his clairvoyance can’t get through.

I agree with all of your points but this one: "- the clairvoyance to your business will be shaded by the lack of feedback from your unexisting peers" Are you kidding me?

It's just that we shouldn't trust discoveries made via flashes of insight, clairvoyance, intuition, guesswork, divine inspiration, etc." If we can't trust discoveries through non-scientific means, than it seems to me you are saying we can only discover things via science.

That works the other way too...people who invest during a bubble are quick to say "it's not a bubble!" - I'm not saying this is a bubble (I won't pretend to know enough or have clairvoyance), but it's not a valid defense to say something isn't overvalued just because people had said that at prices it has since eclipsed.

And of course Clairvoyance: You are able to collect real time information in Google Reader, Delicious and Netvibes.