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> It’s just our philosophy around products. Knowing too much data warps your mind. You find yourself optimizing for a local maximum, instead of making big bets
by rtpg 9y ago
> It’s just our philosophy around products. Knowing too much data warps your mind. You find yourself optimizing for a local maximum, instead of making big bets that really move the needle.
Talk about a false dichotomy around A/B tests. You can do big things _and_ do small things.
But I guess a lot of people like having the moral high ground of not following trends... they could really just say "we don't feel the need for A/B tests".
- 1337p337 9y agoNot a false dichotomy at all. Ignoring that the size of the team is exactly two (and there's only so much you can keep in your head), when you have a metric, you optimize for it. It's not even a conscious process.