Stepping Stones
topic on 1 show · 2 statements across 1 episodes
2 statements about Stepping Stones, every show
Stanley: Complex discovery requires a portfolio of stepping stones, like investing
“Because we don't know the stepping stones, what we need to do is we need to proliferate stepping stones, like stepping stone candidates, things that could lead to something interesting. But we don't know which one. It's a lot, this is related in some ways to i…”
Stanley: Metrics are useless for hard problems because required stepping stones are counterintuitive
“If the actual stepping stones that lead to where we want to go are counterintuitive, in other words, they're not what you would expect, then the metrics are useless, right? Because they won't detect those stepping stones because they don't look like what the m…”