Solve prioritisation and communication problems in your team; you have solved your execution problem.

Individuals think they are indispensable to a company.

Companies think they can replace individuals like cogs in a machine.

The truth as always lies somewhere in between.

A smug reminder.

@abhyrama: Do not mistake Twitter for the mood of a nation.

Have users ever welcomed a popular product’s UI/UX changes with open arms and hugs?

• 1/9 Saw lessons from the US election in today’s newspaper.

  A thread of an old post of mine on the same topic.

• 2/9 Election season is the best time to get a front-row seat for the show on human behavior and psychology.

  It is the best time to witness hindsight bias in action.

• 3/9 “Skin in the Game” and “Accountability” are best seen during these times.

  People who say one thing before the election write diametrically opposite words post-election.

• 4/9 The thing I find fascinating is no one holds these individuals accountable for what they wrote before elections; no one questions their credibility and so-called expertise.

• 5/9 It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future - Yogi Berra.

  I believe it is almost impossible to predict the future, but what we can do is observe the broad trends; the trends should be the guide to the future.

• 6/9 The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained - Daniel Kahneman.

• 7/9 A counter idea to the thought that the future is not predictable is the school of Superforecasting.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecaster

• 8/9 The blog post.

  https://abhyrama.com/2019/05/26/lessons-from-indian-elections/

• 9/9 Back to the top.

  @abhyrama: 1/9 Saw lessons from the US election in today’s newspaper. A thread of an old post of mine on the same topic.