Experimental Mind #222
Your weekly overview of interesting reads, events and jobs for the experimental mind.
Hi folks!
In this ediion a custom GPT for experimenters, an experiment checklist, decreasing experiment tax, Miranda Kroehl shares her career journey and more. Let’s go.
➡️ Essentials of Hybrid Experimentation
The future of experimentation brings client-side and server-side testing together in what more and more organizations are calling “hybrid experimentation.”
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🔎 Interesting things you might have missed
A/B Testing Experiment Guide on ChatGPT
Ron Kohavi created a ChatGpt based on his book, a couple of papers and a sessions from his course. Try it out.
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The Better Experiment Checklist
Jakub Linowski is working on this document turning experiment best practices into a checklist.
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🎧 Empowered Teams Model in Experimentation with Lukas Vermeer
Lukas Vermeer on the nohacks.show talking about Dutch cuisine and the empowered product teams model.
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Experimentation Tax
”The Experimentation Tax is the human cost associated with designing, executing, monitoring, analysing, and reporting on an experiment.” Gavin Bryant explains why this is important and how you measure and decrease experimentation tax.
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How to Reduce Uncertainty in Product and Startup Traction
Chris Guest shares a collection of frameworks drawn from the diverse worlds of startups, marketing, growth hacking, software development, and more.
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Reduce Dilution and Improve Sensitivity with Trigger Analysis
Latest article from the Spotify/Confidence team on trigger analysis and exposure logging.
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💬 My Experimentation Career Journey
Today’s interview is with Miranda Kroehl. Miranda is Senior Director of Data Science and Experimentation at Charter Communications.
Don’t underestimate the power of networking and demonstrating your passions—it could lead to unexpected opportunities down the line. — Miranda Kroehl
Read the full interview with Miranda
🚀 Job opportunities
Find 100+ open roles on ExperimentationJobs.com. This week’s featured roles:
Senior Data Engineer, Experimentation at Vinted (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Staff Tech Lead Manager, Experimentation & Insights at Slack (USA)
CRO Specialist at ESW (Madrid, Spain)
Head of CRO Strategy and Project Management Office at DLL (Europe)
Product Management Leader- AI at Optimizely (USA)
Experimentation Jobs has been shortlisted for an Experimentation Elite Award + nominated for the Experimentation Culture Award.🎉
📅 Upcoming events
A running list of upcoming events.
19 Jun: Growth Marketing SUMMIT (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
🎁Use code ’experimental-mind
‘ to get 10% off and let’s meet there.24 Jun: Accelerating Innovation with A/B Testing with Ronny Kohavi (virtual)
🎁Get 500 dollar off:$1,999$1,499 USD🆕5 Jul: Nudgestock (virtual)
Full list of experimentation conferences & events in 2024
👋 I’ll be attending growth marketing SUMMIT, Europe's premier real life conference for digital growth, experimentation and optimization in Frankfurt, Germany. Let me know if you will be there as well. Especially when you are taking the train.
💬 Quote to think about
“And when you cannot prove that people are wrong, but only that they are absurd, the best course is to let them alone."
— Thomas Huxley (1897)
😃 Something that made me smile

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Have a great week — and keep experimenting.
Thanks, Kevin