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Give Random a Chance

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Using a Random Number Generator to Choose What Work

If you feel uncomfortable with the idea of letting a random number generator choose what work, you're going to do. We all like to believe that we don't bring our ego to work. But it's very likely that we can all benefit from a little bit more of a random voting mechanism in the work that we do. The illusion is that we can somehow intuit the right path but if you can't explain that intuition, it's verylikely that intuition itself is an unreliable metric at best.

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