McCarthy refused the term mentor -- "it's more balanced than that -- explaining instead: "We're friends, but of a different generation, she's a lot younger than me".
"Most stoves don't put smoke into your living room directly," he explains; instead, smoke that is vented outdoors leaks back into nearby homes through cracks around doors and windows. 2 A larger, better-controlled study is needed to confirm these findings, as well as determine any long-term health benefits of filtering indoor air, such as preventing strokes or heart attacks.
"The new owners treated the company's history as something that ought to be preserved and celebrated," Mr. Lodi explained, "instead of something that should be crushed, consigned to the dumpster and hauled away".
Second, as already explained, instead of testing whether residents believe that more prevalent diseases are more likely, we tested whether residents with different beliefs about the prevalence of a single disease make different diagnostic likelihood judgments for that disease.
"If you want to change the minds of the people who have got the power, you need to think about their perceptions," he told me, explaining that instead of protesting the government they'd instead try to engage with them: "In the last year, CLEAR has had more meetings with government ministers and senior politicians than the entire campaign in the last 40 years".
"But we've actually tied the central vacuum system into the home automation system," he said, explaining that instead of routing low-voltage wire along each suction line, his company has developed a technology that uses the home's existing electrical system to carry signals from the inlet valves to the power unit.
"The most common card reader now is the proximity reader," he said, explaining that instead of requiring a card to be slid into a slot, a proximity reader will unlock the door when the card is held close to the reader's electronic sensor.
Apart from when he experiences grief (in by far the best section of the book), the narrator never comes forward, instead explaining things that don't require explanation.
Whether or not it's someone who has prior CFO experience is not as important, he explained, saying instead that what this person really needs is the "intellectual capacity and conviction" and is someone who can tell you when you're wrong.
