Metadata
- Author: John Cutler
- Full Title:: TBM 241: Convictions
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Culture,
- URL:: https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-241-convictions-loosely-held
- Finished date:: 2023-09-09
Highlights
in cases involving short- and long-term effects, where causality is hard to determine, and dealing with abstract strategic bets…you need conviction. You must make leaps of faith and attempt to shape a future that may not yet exist and can’t be extrapolated from existing data. (View Highlight)
“If this were the perfect metric, and we knew it unlocked long-term growth, wouldn’t that be suspect? Wouldn’t our competitors likely have figured it out, too—if it were that straightforward? Maybe uncertainty is a signal we’re on to something.” (View Highlight)