Another business expertise thing that doesn’t seem talked about as much, mostly because the skill is so context specific:
Managing the tension between ‘bias for action’ and ‘wow, that was a really stupid waste of an iteration, wasn’t it?’
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I’m absolutely sure this skill exists, that people with more experience/expertise in a particular business eventually learn it, but I’m not sure how to teach it or even learn it for myself (for a particular business)
It seems most people just trial and error their way to it.
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it's the experimentalist skillset.
each iteration has to prove/disprove a hypothesis and refine a working model of the world.
if you haven't set yourself up to learn something useful from the iteration, it's a waste.
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Some hypotheses are so dumb they aren’t worth testing though. That’s what I was trying to get at — reasonable people can disagree as to what to throw at the wall (to see what sticks).
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that's why it has to refine a working model of the world AND allow you to learn something useful
what makes a hypothesis dumb? it either:
- unreasonably goes against overwhelming evidence to the contrary, or
- or seeks to confirm something that's already well-known
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