Thanks for this post! As someone who’s agonized over some career (and other) decisions, I really appreciate it. It also seems to apply for e.g. shallow investigations into potential problems/causes (e.g., topic). Also, I love the graphs.
For some of the advice in this post (like on flakiness, parallel trial and evaluation, etc.), I’d also point people to: Should you reverse any advice you hear?
Thanks for this post! As someone who’s agonized over some career (and other) decisions, I really appreciate it. It also seems to apply for e.g. shallow investigations into potential problems/causes (e.g., topic). Also, I love the graphs.
A few relevant posts and thoughts:
The author’s other post on the topic is very relevant: Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty
For some of the advice in this post (like on flakiness, parallel trial and evaluation, etc.), I’d also point people to: Should you reverse any advice you hear?
For people who haven’t used a google doc to ask people for comments on a big decision: An easy win for hard decisions.