But because the firm had placed more of its early bets on the enterprise, August Capital didn't engage in some of the craziness like some VCs (Marquardt notes that the firm didn't come out unscathed; its mistakes just weren't that consequential to overall performance).
But Brian Burke, writing on his excellent website, Advanced NFL Stats, uses win probability models to show that Coughlin's decision to run on 3rd down wasn't all that consequential.
By comparison, a mayor asking his city's pension funds to divest $33 million of its $160 billion pension funds from coal isn't that consequential for U.S. coal executives.
It's not that the results aren't consequential.
But he decided that consequential losses were not in principle recoverable under the legislation.
Then the attacks came, and suddenly it was not so consequential that Michael Jackson had finished his long delayed album, that teenypop was angling to seem more grown-up or that sullen rockers had complaints about their parents.
And then gone on to point out that the release of information was so haphazard, and the information itself largely dismissed by most of the media at the time as not especially consequential, that it was clear there was no truly serious foreign effort to win his election.
The place was like a boiler room, filled with resolutions, conflict, intrigue, lots of noise and steam -- and not much that was consequential.
It's a long-standing paradox of literary careers that the more consequential a writer's major work is, the larger the number of not terribly consequential odds and ends that gets added to the eventual account.
In the model, almost all gains are relatively low, which again confers a certain degree of robustness and implies that small changes are not particularly consequential.
