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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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" We came up with a lot of follow on ideas that helped a lot. But to me, this was an example of a tiny change that was the best revenue generating idea in Bing's history, and we didn't rate it properly.
“" We came up with a lot of follow on ideas that helped a lot. But to me, this was an example of a tiny change that was the best revenue generating idea in Bing's history, and we didn't rate it properly.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
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- Lenny's Podcast
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And the question is, what are you optimizing for? And it's a much harder question that people think because it's very easy to say we're going to optimize for money, revenue.
“And the question is, what are you optimizing for? And it's a much harder question that people think because it's very easy to say we're going to optimize for money, revenue.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
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- Lenny's Podcast
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I think one of the things that I will say at Airbnb is the analysis was relatively weak, and so lots of data scientists were hired to be able to compensate for the fact that the platform didn't do enough.
“I think one of the things that I will say at Airbnb is the analysis was relatively weak, and so lots of data scientists were hired to be able to compensate for the fact that the platform didn't do enough.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
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- Lenny's Podcast
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I will say that when you say things are going well, I think we don't know the counterfactual.
“I will say that when you say things are going well, I think we don't know the counterfactual.”
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- Ronny Kohavi
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- Lenny's Podcast
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So if I'm pitching the book here, there is no financial gain for me from having more copies sold. I think we made that decision, which was a good decision.
“So if I'm pitching the book here, there is no financial gain for me from having more copies sold. I think we made that decision, which was a good decision.”
- Speaker
- Ronny Kohavi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast