This article is remarkably astute. Not necessarily for the details, but just for its statistical instead of individual view into the startup ecosystem.
In this highly complex system of companies and customers and ideas, nothing is constant, and very little is predictable. You can't look at individual points and see the trend, or be able to predict anything from that point. You have to look at the ecosystem statistically, and that's effectively what this article is talking about.
Everyone should understand statistics. Not Stat-10 intro-to-statistics, but the beauty of statistical understanding in the real world, as it applies to you. This article is a great example. If you think systematically, you'll understand your market better, your company better, your employees better, and yourself better, and you won't fall into the fallacies this article points out.
Because that's what they are. Fallacies. Falsehoods. If you believe you fully control your destiny and your outcome, you are necessarily at least partially incorrect.
Even if you consider yourself and your own success and what you believe leads to it, you are still part of a complex system you don't fully understand. However, you can get a much better grasp of it if you don't use yourself as a single-point anecdote. Spot on.
In this highly complex system of companies and customers and ideas, nothing is constant, and very little is predictable. You can't look at individual points and see the trend, or be able to predict anything from that point. You have to look at the ecosystem statistically, and that's effectively what this article is talking about.
Everyone should understand statistics. Not Stat-10 intro-to-statistics, but the beauty of statistical understanding in the real world, as it applies to you. This article is a great example. If you think systematically, you'll understand your market better, your company better, your employees better, and yourself better, and you won't fall into the fallacies this article points out.
Because that's what they are. Fallacies. Falsehoods. If you believe you fully control your destiny and your outcome, you are necessarily at least partially incorrect.
Even if you consider yourself and your own success and what you believe leads to it, you are still part of a complex system you don't fully understand. However, you can get a much better grasp of it if you don't use yourself as a single-point anecdote. Spot on.