I remember the first time I made an important decision at work. It was defining a metric a sales team would be using, and I didn't even realize I'd done it until it had already happened.
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Mercifully, nothing went wrong with that first sales team metric, but I've since had my stats and visualizations taken out of context, misused, backfire on someone... Some have even taken on lives of their own, existing in spite of being wrong and being tough to correct or quash.
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I'd say it's made me cautious, but it's probably more accurate to say that it's made me deliberate. Being given the chance to make an impact also means you have a chance to make negative impact, and making sure that risk is worth the reward is a part of the game.
