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- Improvement involves making mistakes, so expect them
- Making mistakes is not enough; to learn from mistakes you need to:
--> Be prepared to be wrong and embarrassed
--> Gather and analyse as much data about the mistake as possible
--> Condense the analysis into simple, actionable changes
— Nov 19, 2025 12:53AM
- Making mistakes is not enough; to learn from mistakes you need to:
--> Be prepared to be wrong and embarrassed
--> Gather and analyse as much data about the mistake as possible
--> Condense the analysis into simple, actionable changes
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"It is possible to make significant progress against the biggest problem in the world through the accumulation of a set of small steps, each well thought out, carefully tested, and judiciously implemented." - Esther Duflo
— Dec 21, 2025 04:52AM
Joshua Rodriguez
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The start of the book stresses the importance of accepting and learning from failure - which is cool, but this chapter focuses on the fact that failure is everywhere.
- Example: Beyond scared straight programme. Seems logical, but actually ineffective at preventing crime. Only way to find was a random control sample test, not ignoring missing responses.
— Dec 20, 2025 04:10AM
- Example: Beyond scared straight programme. Seems logical, but actually ineffective at preventing crime. Only way to find was a random control sample test, not ignoring missing responses.
