Monday, November 15, 2010

Make and break the model

A key part of being an entrepreneur, software engineer, or scientist is to make and break "models".

Models are belief systems or hypotheses or lenses or ways by which we see / view the world. They're almost always wrong but we have to operate under them.

Making models is what we do when you define a problem, explain a context or situation and define a plan to test it.

Breaking (or proving) models is the goal. We do this when we finally get to test our assumptions and theories. By testing models we learn if we are right or wrong.


 

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