Be careful about blindly following your early adopters.
- Be careful about blindly following your early adopters.
- The early adopters can pull you in weird, random directions.
- A mental model to get the underlying dynamic:
- Imagine an underlying distribution of points with 0.7 correlation.
- Imagine adding one point from the distribution at a time randomly and drawing the line of best fit.
- At the beginning the line will jump randomly with every new point.
- When you get to the 1000th point, the line will barely move.