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Measure everything. There are two benefits to this.

1. Discarding the bullshit. A consistent practice of weighting assumptions and conclusions on evidence/numbers helps identify biases and motives from other people.

2. Measures allow for value identification and performance. Most people just guess at this. Guessing is wrong more than 80% of the time and often wrong by multiple orders of magnitude.

Most people don’t think like this and find this line of thinking completely foreign, so I often just keep my conclusions to myself. To see a movie about this watch Money Ball.



This is interesting. I’ve often thought about building a dashboard for my personal life, comparable to the dashboards I build for growth teams.

And then iterating on it over time, and I find what’s valuable and what’s not.




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