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lisa • 2 cards
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Tweets From Paul Graham · @paulg • Tweet
This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
“For a vast digital product like the Journal, applying data-driven experimentation was like discovering plutonium; it’s the most powerful product development tool on the face of the planet. It allows us to safely test aggressive new changes, make laser-guided business decisions and to quickly, iteratively, improve our product.”
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality. Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made ... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
@gordonbrander Although perhaps a 2x2 makes more sense per @kevin2kelly https://t.co/55uzti2B17