3. The "Visionary & Contrarian" Bettor:

• Core Philosophy: Data helps optimize, but true breakthroughs come from non-obvious insights and strong conviction about where the world is going. Building something truly magical requires taking leaps data can't yet support. Avoid the "local maximum" trap.


• Potential Critique/Questions for You:
  
  
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How is it even possible to maintain a data-driven approach to a world that simply does not make sense?

This is the future of work skill, which no one wants to talk about: Knowing when to look beyond the data, because only human intuition, leaps of logic, and sense-making can come to ‘an’ answer. (Note: Not ‘the’ answer... that’s another trapping of

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How can we reclaim data as a tool for clarity instead of submitting to its chaos?

Just because we can measure everything doesn't mean we should. Digital media gave way to instant metrics which led to instant expectations on results but a CTR, a bounce rate, or even a conversion doesn’t always tell the whole story. The obsession with short-term,

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when I was earlier in my career I was searching for the answers or the way to do things - the binary - and I think anyone that's been doing this for a while learns that it's all nuanced. Silicon Valley has tended so far towards optimizing for graphs and metrics and if we can reel it back in a little bit at least as just one company I think that

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