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TBM 408: Basic Links

The Beautiful Mess • 714 implied HN points • 25 Feb 26
💼 Business Outcomes
  1. Shipping creates the potential for outcomes rather than delivering final results, and each change starts a chain of hypotheses and assumptions you must test. Uncertainty in those links is normal and points to where you need to learn or take a leap.
  2. Changes usually set off multiple impact paths that affect different users, metrics, and timeframes. Start with clear, actionable inputs, name the immediate effects you expect, and connect those to longer-term outcomes.
  3. Strategy and research help you choose where to act, form causal hypotheses, and decide what signals to measure instead of only chasing lagging metrics. Build a roadmap of researched options, set goals for actions or early signals as well as long-term results, and iterate.

Weight Loss (Bariatric) Surgery - The Basics

Weight and Healthcare • 479 implied HN points • 04 May 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Outcomes
  1. Weight loss (bariatric) surgeries put the digestive system into a disease state through various methods like malabsorption and food restriction.
  2. Patients can fall into three outcome groups: one happy with temporary results, two miserable and regretful, and three deceased due to complications.
  3. Bariatric surgeries are heavily marketed for profit by organizations funded by profit-driven interests, creating ethical concerns due to lack of long-term outcome data and increased risks.

Timeless

The Weasel Speaks • 98 implied HN points • 18 Jun 23
💼 Business Outcomes
  1. Meetings should focus on communication needs like information sharing, questions, and discussions.
  2. Prioritize outcomes over rigid agendas for more effective meetings.
  3. Evaluate the necessity of meetings by questioning the clarity of outcomes and preparation, ensuring they are truly beneficial.

Lowering Costs and Increasing Value for Students, Institutions, and Taxpayers

The Future of Education • 99 implied HN points • 16 Aug 23
🚌 Education Outcomes
  1. The current higher education system lacks incentives for institutions to focus on student outcomes and financial returns.
  2. Accreditors play a gatekeeper role for federal financial aid, but are not incentivized to focus on student outcomes.
  3. Policy should shift focus to student outcomes, transparency in pricing, and requiring colleges to share in the risk of student loan repayments.
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#33: Preference uncertainty

The Uncertainty Mindset (soon to become tbd) • 39 implied HN points • 17 Jun 20
💼 Business Outcomes
  1. Making choices is easier when we clearly know what we prefer. When our preferences are uncertain, it becomes tough to decide on a course of action.
  2. Preference uncertainty happens when we don't know how to rank different outcomes or when we lack complete knowledge about them. This can make it hard to choose what to do.
  3. Businesses also face preference uncertainty, which affects their decision-making, especially when weighing options like safety versus profit or investing in new ideas versus sticking with what works.

#25 Resulting

Atomic Learnings • 3 implied HN points • 08 Mar 23
💼 Business Outcomes
  1. Judging decisions solely by outcomes is flawed - focus on the quality of the decision itself.
  2. In life, don't let one bad outcome cloud your judgment of a decision's quality.
  3. Learn to differentiate between decision-making and the outcomes they produce to avoid 'resulting.'

GCP and AWS: What’s the Difference?

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 17 Jul 18
🕹 Technology Outcomes
  1. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have different philosophies: AWS is favored by ops engineers for its low-level control, while GCP appeals more to software engineers with its managed services approach.
  2. GCP gets criticized for poor historical support, less service offerings than AWS, and opaque roadmaps but is praised for integration of core services and high-quality releases.
  3. Billing and support differ between GCP and AWS: GCP offers simpler pricing models and is enhancing support services, while AWS has complex billing and a more hands-on support structure.

Markets for sports outcomes- The long odds bias!

Musings on Markets • 0 implied HN points • 12 Oct 08
🎾 Sports Outcomes
  1. People often bet too much on long odds in sports, thinking they might win big, while ignoring the favorites. This usually leads to losing money.
  2. This behavior shows how humans can misjudge probabilities, often thinking rare events are more likely than they are.
  3. In finance, this long odds bias can result in overvaluing risky stocks and undervaluing stable companies, just like in sports betting.