Confidence is not evidence about odds
How sure a person feels at the start is an accurate reading of that person and nothing else. Everybody standing in the same line was let in by the same feeling, so the group's rate does not move when one
Two definitions of done can both be true
Two people close the same piece of work at different moments and both of them are finished. What separates them is not care and not skill, it is what each one is holding the work up against, and where the
The market was the witness
For years the thing that confirmed my work was money, and money has no mood, no history with me and nothing it needs back. When the income went, the reading went with it, and what was left was people, who
Appreciation is not evaluation
Two things get filed under being seen: a person responding to the fact that you made something, and a person able to tell you which part of it works. Only the second one carries information, and I spent years reading