Judgment
topic on 6 shows · 11 statements across 10 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
BigDeal 
Lenny's Podcast 
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11 statements about Judgment, every show
Isenberg: Fast AI coding shifts the primary bottleneck to human judgment
“Once Claude can build things click quickly, as you see the bottom, the bottleneck moves to the judgment.”
Dr. Becky: Curiosity and judgment are mutually exclusive mental states
“You inherently cannot be judgmental. When you're curious. And when you're judgmental about something, you're inherently not curious about it.”
Kahneman: Judgment is informal measurement using the mind, creating inherent variability
“We speak of judgment as measurement, but it's measurement where the measuring instrument is your mind, but you do it informally. And because you do it informally, people are going to, are not necessarily going to agree, so wherever we say it's a matter for jud…”
Bender: AI Bots Cannot Have Judgment or Accountability
“A bot is not the kind of thing that can have judgment, nor is it the kind of thing that can have accountability for exercising judgment.”
Downer: Judgment will be the most valuable commodity as information commoditizes
“So the knowledge is there, but in, like, the coming years, what he says is, like, the value commodity amongst employees or workers or business owners
It's judgment.
We all have access to the same information, but what are the decisions we make based on the inf…”
Doshi: Playbooks become standard over time, outperformance always requires judgment
“If everybody could just follow playbooks then you know, and they might be wonderful playbooks, but over time, even wonderful playbooks become the industry standard. So now if you want to outperform, you need something else, and that something else is always ju…”
Dignan: Permission cultures stifle judgment and cause employee inaction
“And permission cultures tend to have a problem, which is that they then have to define everything. Because to your point earlier about judgment, there's no room for judgment in a permission culture, unless you have the permission already. So you get a lot of p…”
Parrish: Rigid operating procedures eliminate thinking and erode judgment over time
“Procedures are basically like an algorithm that you apply given a certain situation, certain inputs. And what I discovered is that it just eliminated thinking because people would go, oh, there's no procedure for the slight deviation from what would happen. An…”
Kahneman: Spotting flawed judgment is easier than recognizing good judgment
“So it's harder to recognize very good judgment, but it's fairly easy to see, you know, what goes wrong, and there are quite a few ways for judgment to go wrong.”
Kahneman: Wherever human judgment is present, there is more noise than expected
“So wherever our rule is that wherever there is judgment, there is noise and more of it than you think.”