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When your taste is ahead of your skill, you are not happy with the work you produce.
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
Luca Rossi • Taste vs Skills 🚣♂️ - by Luca Rossi - Refactoring Taste vs Skills 🚣♂️
- Data is a compass not a map”
- “Vision and intuition help you identify the right mountain, data helps you get to the top.”
Bits and Bobs 5/19/25
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Change introduces new form of failure. The low rate of overt accidents in reliable systems may encourage changes, especially the use of new technology, to decrease the number of low consequence but high frequency failures. These changes maybe actually create opportunities for new, low frequency but high consequence failures.
Unlike the concrete consultant, the amorphous consultant doesn’t begin as a clear expert in what the client already knows it needs. Figuring those needs out is what those apparently aimless conversations are for. The sensemaking/patternfinding work being done there is exactly like what happens when I do ethnographic research in organizations: I’m... See more
Amorphous consulting
- What about this doesn’t work for you?
- What would you need to make this work?
- It seems there’s something here that bothers you?
Yan-David Erlich • Yanda's Negotiation Cheat Sheet
If concrete consulting is for the problems organizations already know they have to solve, amorphous consulting is for the problems organizations can’t put words to yet.