Thursday, 27 October 2022

Phuck the numbers!!!

 What Is Goodhart's Law? Goodhart's Law is expressed simply as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” In other words, when we set one specific goal, people will tend to optimize for that objective regardless of the consequences.


If you could measure anything? What would you measure?

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

There's a lot of bad teachers - how to know when they're good

 How do you know who's a good teacher?

When you get the sense that they know 10 times more than what they'll actually tell you and would be glad to tell you the rest if given the chance.



The disclaimer here is teacher only I'm not referring to the subject matter of the teacher.

Saturday, 15 October 2022

The streetlight effect

 The streetlight effect, or the drunkard's search principle, is a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look. 

Monday, 10 October 2022

Client Satisfaction starts with satisfaction


Client Satisfaction starts with satisfaction. If that satisfaction bar is too high, it doesn't matter how good the work is, it doesn't matter how much better it is or how much cheaper you got it, it will never be enough.

Client satisfaction is not the quality of the work, but how they feel about the outcome. Sometimes that's showing them the difference between two points, showing them the effort and the problems that others might not have solved, but you did. We all want it all, but once someone realises they can't have it all, they'll start appreciating what they got.



This next part comes from Seth

Satisfaction is often driven by the story we tell ourselves.

How does this rank compared to what I expected? Compared to what I used to have? Compared to the person sitting next to me?

The richest person in the world used to sleep on the floor and eat moldy food, but still felt great because it was more than the person in the next cave.

The good news is that our perception of comparison is up to us.