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... If you had to confirm every single detail of another person's work down to the ground truth, you wouldn't be able to get anything done. It's not even that it wouldn't be any faster than doing it yourself, it's that it would be much slower, b...
...al armor it's coevolved with the enemy's weapons and tactics, with the ultimate ground truth of helping the wearer be an effective fighter and survive. For movies it's designed to look cool, look different enough from other movies as to not f...
...oubt. If every single little detail or assertion has to be defended down to the ground truth, it takes forever to make even small amounts of progress. At a certain point you just check out and say "screw this" unless it's of existential impor...
... "Good idea, majesty!" . But the longer that goes on the more you decohere from ground truth. Fawning is a reinforcing loop. It makes you lean more into the thing you were already doing. You need a feedback loop to balance it out. English kin...
... to be fast. A fast OODA loop is good, but what matters most is that it touches ground truth on every cycle. If it doesn't you get speed that decoheres from reality. The faster you loop the farther you get. There's no time to point out ground...
... an echo chamber. That echo chamber can self-accelerate and remove you from the ground truth reality. All of you in the peer group are successful, and you all only really trust each other. Some weird things can emerge out of that.
...coherent, bold idea with force. But it's also much less likely to decohere from ground truth; the process for re-ground-truthing is internal to itself, and not external. An external ground-truthing mechanism requires competition; if competiti...
...diffuse and over time. Authoritarianism in an environment that's not rigorously ground truthed is extraordinarily dangerous.
...t the economy in toto. Companies die all of the time in the constant process of ground truthing and the economy swarming to find good ideas. One argument for wanting longer-lived companies is that companies that know they won't be around for ...
...uth mindset, those who hold it are fundamentally lost. The mindset implies that ground truth doesn't exist or matter. Perception obviously matters–people make decisions based not on the world as it exists, but their model of the world (their ...
... and the team, possibly only coherent to the kayfabe), or is it momentum in the ground truth reality? Momentum that's just motion might be bad motion. An OODA loop is mainly about the loop; it's possible the observation step is coherent with ...
...are your thing with the world. That's the moment of the truth: when the idea is ground truthed, and shown to be viable or non-viable. The longer you've been working on the idea in a cave, the more likely the idea is non-viable. Perhaps you've...
...arket and the internal petty politics. The need to compete in the market is the ground truth; if the company doesn't create value and successfully compete against competitors it will not survive. It's a grueling slog, and it can be painful, b...
... The further they do this, the more catastrophic the explosion will be when the ground truth inevitably punches them in the face.
...verything is done for perception first and foremost. The kayfabe overwhelms the ground truth. Everyone is hyper aware of how everyone else perceives everything. A Stanford ish late stage vibe: "I need to be a Google APM or I'm going to die" "...
Kayfabe looks imposing but is actually brittle, like glass. When ground truth touches it with the slightest force it will shatter. The bigger the kayfabe gets, the more that momentum it has, the harder it is to touch ground tru...
Ground truthing in organizations happens mainly at offsites. Time together non-transactionally and overnight. Time to whisper and gossip in a friendly way with ev...
...ll bits of signal that stand out from the background noise Humans are a form of ground truth, pinning down what's valuable / useful. If you have humans in the loop and the signal can pop out of the general noise, you get a very powerful, self...
...he useful variance is what stands out. That's a consistent edge imparted by the ground truth of the universe. That strong consistency of a subset is what makes it pops at the level of the population. Usefulness gives a consistent edge, and th...
...nces that are useful in the world. A weak but consistent alignment based on the ground truth of useful utterances in the real world, which allows that inherent structure to pop out at scale. People say things in the real world to make things ...