How to Make Confident Decisions Without Perfect Data
Summary
Drew explains how to navigate ambiguity and make decisive moves even when the data is incomplete, a mindset he brought from the military to business.
Transcript
We'd be in the ship and we try to develop a tactical picture of what was going on in Iran or in China. Whatever it was, you try to develop a good picture. You don't have 100% of the information. There's always ambiguity. There's always contradictory information. And I kind of think it's very similar to running... in the old days, loading up Google Analytics. You're trying to figure out what's going on on your website, you know, or what your customers respond to. Like you're never going to, You're never going to be hit over the head with like the exact answer with complete data. And you still, And yet you still, can't let that paralyze you. You still have to make a decision ultimately and be comfortable with that ambiguity and be like, you know what? Either we have a disagreement here or there's some ambiguity. And yet we're going to decide and commit. And we use that a lot at PostPilot.