Start by stopping

It goes something like this: rubbish in, rubbish out. No surprises, no one challenges the concept, self evident, nothing to see here.

Yet we keep testing it. Putting rubbish in and expecting something else out.

Sure, it can happen. We throw someone a hospital pass and somehow they dodge the hit and come out ahead of the pack. We give them a terrible brief but they work things out and sort through the problem for a beautiful outcome. It’s possible that by some random evolutionary process a grub might one day wake up as a butterfly.

Going by the averages though, rubbish in, rubbish out.

Which means … a better brief, a clearer idea, some cleaner data, more elegant code, a friendlier relationship, direct feedback, a beautiful model, a column of actuals.

And zero tolerance of rubbish.

Skippy strategy: To stop having to tolerate rubbish outputs, start by stopping rubbish inputs.

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