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Where did you pick up the phrase "strong opinions, weakly held"?
by rexpop 10y ago
Where did you pick up the phrase "strong opinions, weakly held"?
- sublimino 10y agoPaul Saffo is a potential source: > Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process is “strong opinions, weakly held.” Allow your intuition to guide you to a conclusion, no matter how imperfect — this is the “strong opinion” part. Then –and this is the “weakly held” part– prove yourself wrong. Engage in creative doubt. Look for information that doesn’t fit, or indicators that pointing in an entirely different direction. Eventually your intuition will kick in and a new hypothesis will emerge out of the rubble, ready to be ruthlessly torn apart once again. You will be surprised by how quickly the sequence of faulty forecasts will deliver you to a useful result. http://www.saffo.com/02008/07/26/strong-opinions-weakly-held/ http://www.saffo.com/02008/07/26/strong-opinions-weakly-held...
- chucksmash 10y agoLost to the mists of time. A little reconstructive memory spelunking via Google yields a plausible theory though: A blog post [1] quoting a blog post [2] quoting a guy [3]. [1]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/strong-opinions-weakly-held/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/strong-opinions-weakly-held/ [2]: http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio... [3]: http://www.iftf.org/bobjohansen/ http://www.iftf.org/bobjohansen/
- joeyespo 10y agohttp://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinions.html http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...