2/🧵 Allow your approach to be sloppy at first and burn some of your initial time, energy, and data on informing a good direction later. That's right, you're supposed to start sloppily ON PURPOSE.
3/🧵 Have a phase where the only result you’re after is *an idea of how to design your ultimate approach better.*
0/ Essential philosophy for #DataScience, a thread of 32 questions.
Grab a friend (virtually) and tackle these 32 essential questions (all with more than one reasonable answer) that every serious #data professional should answer for themselves.
2/10 It's not helpful to form an uninformed opinion & then look for media that confirms your views. You'll find it, maybe you'll feel better, but you may as well skip it - it's a waste of time. You already know you'll just confirm whatever you wanted to believe. Instead, do this:
3/10 Think carefully about your ethics/values/goals (for world, community, family, self). (This post isn't about telling you how much of a nice person to be, only how to make decisions within your own moral framework... but I hope you'll choose to be nice.)