{"id":667,"date":"2020-10-02T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2020-10-02T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:56:12","slug":"you-cant-wait-until-you-know-everything-for-certain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/you-cant-wait-until-you-know-everything-for-certain\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t wait until you know everything for certain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s a good quote from Amazon\u2019s founder: \u201cMost decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you\u2019re probably being slow. If you\u2019re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive.\u201d -Jeff Bezos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I catch myself waiting to be 100% certain about something before acting, which is usually an impossible level of certainty to attain anyway. Jeff says even if you wait for 90% certainty, you\u2019re waiting too long.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes you just have to do it and then see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a good quote from Amazon\u2019s founder: \u201cMost decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you\u2019re probably being slow. If you\u2019re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/you-cant-wait-until-you-know-everything-for-certain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can\u2019t wait until you know everything for certain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}