Episode 287: Informal favoritism and post-hoc finger pointing
Soft Skills Engineering
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Is There a Signal to Evaluate Technical Ideas?
It is so difficult to objectively evaluate the goodness of different technical ideas. If you have a track record of outcomes that stacks up in your favor, for the same brain that produced those ideas will probably produce good ideas in the future. Ye, there's sort of an identified solution here in the example where some other member proposed the same idea and it was dismissed, and then later that same argument was accepted. Yes, it's kind of like yet's interesting.
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