Writing my performance evaluation today, most of which is private but which I’m happy to share the fundamental strategy: Run a portfolio of experiments. Unlike an actual investment, you can increase sizing *after* the results are in at a similar entry price. Do that ruthlessly.
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Since the sizing of an investment metaphor might be a bit weird for people who don't allocate capital professionally: Suppose hypothetically you have 100 units of mental bandwidth and run 5 experiments with 20 units each. 3 work, 1 has the seeds of greatness.
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You could: a) Be told by your manager "Ugh, you've got a 40% failure rate." Many businesses are managed this way. Prefer not to work in them if you work in this fashion. b) Run 5 new experiments next quarter with 20 units each. c) Put ~60 units in scaling adoption of #1 result
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Can you give a few firm examples?
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No, but you can reasonably predict a lot of my work based on what I've done in my career, and you can probably predict sets of knobs that I'd gravitate to.
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