Quotes About Analysis

Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should be another 'paired' metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric.

What 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? What 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcome and happiness?

you never want to solve a research problem with language. You

buscar un mercado antes de idear un producto es más inteligente que lo contrario.

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker

1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

learned here. First, per-hour cost is not the ultimate determinant of cost. Look at per-task cost.

Where can you create a "red team" in your life to stress-test your most treasured beliefs?

Annie regularly shares her observations on the science of smart decision-making (applied to much more than poker) on her blog, Annie's Analysis,

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information. In general, know when it's really important not to take people's words at 100 percent face value.

Here are a few common time-consumers in small businesses with online presences. Submitting articles to drive traffic to site and build mailing lists Participating in or moderating discussion forums and message boards Managing affiliate programs Creating content for and publishing newsletters and blog postings Background research components of new marketing initiatives or analysis of current marketing results Don't expect miracles from a single

Often, there's a very basic, very dumb question at the center of a story that no one's asking. One of the biggest stories I ever did, 'The Giant Pool of Money,' was predicated on just such a dumb question: 'Why are the banks loaning money to people who can't possibly pay it back?' Asking the right dumb question is often the smartest thing you can do.

The next morning, I began a dissection of my business and personal life through the lenses of two questions: 1. Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? 2. Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

Notice how often he reframes the question (examines whether the question is the right question) before answering. In several cases, how he dissects wording is as interesting as his answers.

Even today, I still benefit from that because I don't merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem. I

Me gusta analizar lo que Seth no hace tanto como lo que sí hace. Seth no tiene comentarios en su blog, no presta atención a las analíticas y no usa Twitter ni Facebook

Lo que puede medirse, puede manejarse.» PETER DRUCKER,

When something goes badly, I don't automatically assume I did something wrong. Instead I ask myself, "What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?" If yes, then carry on!

A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself—(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information.