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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.
Drawn from what Gergely Orosz and David Heinemeier Hansson said
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What they actually said
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Gergely Orosz IDK why anyone has a problem with having strong opinions, weakly held. x.com
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Their wordsIDK why anyone has a problem with having strong opinions, weakly held.
Where this was said
David Heinemeier Hansson I'd rather celebrate people updating their priors than dunking on them for being late. Make it cool to change your mind when you realize the facts have changed! x.com
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsI'd rather celebrate people updating their priors than dunking on them for being late. Make it cool to change your mind when you realize the facts have changed!
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Where this collides
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Hansson and Orosz hold that changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated. Sivers says nobody actually decides on the facts -- emotion decides and facts rationalise. If Sivers is right, the celebrated mind-change is usually a feeling that arrived first and found its evidence afterwards, which does not make it worth less but does make the reason given for it suspect.
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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.