Experimental Mind: Pancakes

Recruiter Mimi VerLoren van Themaat shares four tips.

Your resume is the first image a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR professional sees of you and on which the decision to interview or not is often made. 

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I have noticed some teams get stuck trying to create the “perfect” first experiment. I think this behavior is counterproductive. We don’t know what we don’t know and won’t know unless we try. ... It’s like making a pancake! The first one is always a trash pancake.

A successful experimentation paradigm requires one to operate with high trust and high velocity. Unfortunately, those two often compete against each other. Stas Sajin explains how they deal with it at DoorDash.

Measuring the performance of our products and services can easily get confused with measuring our users' behavior. Here's how to avoid that.

At 7shifts, we believe in Speed as a Habit and that, all things equal, speed is what sets you apart from your competition. To move fast, you need to release features rapidly to learn what works and what doesn’t.

Experimentation tool Eppo announced that it has partnered with Snowflake.

Lukas Vermeer on LinkedIn: This idea and the clear examples are blowing my mind: "Most of the common statistical models (t-test, correlation, ANOVA; chi-square, etc.) are special cases of linear models or a very close approximation." 

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💬 Quote of the week

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." —Maya Angelou

😄 Fun of the week

Roshan Patel @roshanpateI

bless her little heart https://t.co/A7FQlpwbJt

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