Data vs Intuition
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Data vs Intuition
“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive, when told of the insecurity Kushner had confided to Rick Rubin. “I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start... See more
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“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more
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Don’t get paralyzed by testing everything. If you can’t get statistical significance within a month, use pre/post analysis instead. Trust intuition more, especially when:
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
As a younger man, I always had a "data over feelings" view of the world, but after 15+ years of performing analytical testing, seeing data manipulated in every possible direction to fit personal biases and agendas, I now view feelings as the only thing that really matters.
motorhome laboratoriesx.comDon’t think your way there — feel your way there.
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That Nike post is the perfect articulation of the fact that as soon as all the corporations learned how to be “data driven” all the leverage had already shifted back to those able to make decisions based on taste, insight, and intuition.
TJ Parker⚡️x.com
Epic post on how Nike lost $25B in a day by trying to make everything data-driven:
"Nike invested billions into something that was less effective but easier to measure vs something that was more effective but less easy to measure.
In conclusion: an impressive waste of money."... See more