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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
“So a stranger book, which I love, sort of on the verge of psychology, it's called Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), about all the fallacies that we fall into, and the humbling results from that.”
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Ronny Kohavi
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Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense
“There's a fun book called Calling Bullshit, which despite the name, which is a little extreme, I think, for a title, it actually has a lot of amazing insights that I love. And it sort of embodies, in my opinion, a lot of the Twyman's law showing that things that are too extreme, your bullshit meter should go up and say, "Hey, I don't believe that." So that's my number one recommendation. There's a slightly older book that I love called Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense by the Stanford professors from the Graduate School of Business. Very interesting to see many of the things that we grew up with as well understood turn out to have no justification. So a stranger book, which I love, sort of on the verge of psychology, it's called Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), about all the fallacies that we fall into, and the humbling results from that.”
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I think one of the mistakes that some company makes is they launch a lot of experiments and never go back and summarize the learnings.
“I think one of the mistakes that some company makes is they launch a lot of experiments and never go back and summarize the learnings.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / belief
I think the ability to give people honest feedback and have them appreciate, and have it stay after the meeting in these notes on the document, just amazing.
“I think the ability to give people honest feedback and have them appreciate, and have it stay after the meeting in these notes on the document, just amazing.”
- Speaker
- Ronny Kohavi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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In fact, if you look at one investment, one big investment that was done at the time was online experiences, and the initial data wasn't very promising. And I think today, it's a footnote.
“In fact, if you look at one investment, one big investment that was done at the time was online experiences, and the initial data wasn't very promising. And I think today, it's a footnote.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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I teach this in my class, but I think I've posted this on LinkedIn and answered some questions.
“I teach this in my class, but I think I've posted this on LinkedIn and answered some questions.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast