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- [It's hard to capture reality with data](https://javisantana.com/fastdata/40-things-I-learned-about-data.html). Modelling reality always gets complex. There are always small nuances, special conditions, things that changed, edge cases and, of course, errors (which sometimes became features). Data visualizations are lossy.
- Progress in data isn't linear. As a research discipline, you might spend hours making no progress and then have a breakthrough. Or worse, prove your entire approach won't work.
- [Apply a research mindset to data](https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/10/25/running-effective-ai-standups). Focus on input metrics, build scientific intuition, and embrace uncertainty.
- [How can science – loosely, the production of facts – do more to "steer" the outcomes of these processes?](https://jscaseddon.co/2024/02/science-for-steering-vs-for-decision-making/)

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- [Understand your personal stance on the trade-off of compromise versus purity](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/11/08/concave.html). Given a choice between two alternatives, often both expressed as deep principled philosophies, do you naturally gravitate toward the idea that one of the two paths should be correct and we should stick to it, or do you prefer to find a way in the middle between the two extremes?
- [It's often not _how much force_ you can bring to bear, so much as whether you can apply that force _effectively_](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rQKstXH8ZMAdN5iqD/concentration-of-force).
- You don't feel the consequences/pain of the actions you don't take! A good decision can still have unintended consequences.
- [Most of the time there is no particular individual or approximation of an individual who's in charge](https://jscaseddon.co/2024/02/science-for-steering-vs-for-decision-making/). There’s a social or political process, in which many decision makers, each with different motivations that may or may not include anything other than self interest, negotiate, collaborate, compete, haggle, ...

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