Data vs Intuition

If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

— Jim Barksdale

On intuition and asking for feedback:

“Henry Ford didn’t need focus groups to tell him that people would prefer inexpensive, dependable automobiles over horses. Alexander Graham Bell never stopped to worry about whether people would prefer speaking to each other on the phone. If viewers liked watching news on television, why wouldn’t they want the o

“Because it’s cool” is an underrated way to make decisions

-via Jason Yuan

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” ― John Cage

“One admires a genius because one has the imagination to see that there is no ‘mechanism’ in him or his work, nothing that can be analyzed and rationalized”

Jacques Barzun

"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the right thing"

Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast