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It is starting to get old seeing people extrapolate principles from anecdotes. It's probably just our engineering instincts trying to find the patterns in thin
by dschobel 17y ago
It is starting to get old seeing people extrapolate principles from anecdotes.
It's probably just our engineering instincts trying to find the patterns in things.
Normative startup advice seems to be about as useful as normative life advice-- not very.
- fnid 17y agoHumans can rationalize anything: http://habitatchronicles.com/2006/12/smart-people-can-rationalize-anything/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2006/12/smart-people-can-ration... You frame a problem in a context, or a time frame, or a motivation and you can argue whatever point you want. All predictions about the future are by definition opinion.
- dschobel 17y agoWe're talking about methodology though. Something which is very meaningful in an engineering context but, and this is purely my opinion here, significantly less so in the business world. There is, for example, a best way to build a bridge. I'm not so sure there is a best way to build a company.
- btilly 17y agoIf there is a single best way to build a bridge, then why do we have so many different types of bridges being built? There are many different good ways to build bridges, with trade-offs between them, and knowing about them lets engineers to pick the best way to build a particular bridge.
- derefr 17y agoI do believe that was what the parent said. There's no best bridge (or, say, best hash data structure), but there is a best procedure to create a given one.
- jamesbritt 17y agoGood book on this: The Halo Effect http://www.the-halo-effect.com/ http://www.the-halo-effect.com/