Strong Opinions Loosely Held Might Be the Worst Idea in Tech

Stroll through an engineering office and you are likely to hear the (mostly white, mostly male) denizens making statements like:

The idea of strong opinions, loosely held is that you can make bombastic statements, and everyone should implicitly assume that you’ll happily change your mind in a heartbeat if new data suggests you are wrong. As world-class poker player Annie Duke points out in Thinking in Bets, even if you start at 90%, your ego will have a much easier time with a reversal than if you have committed to absolute, eternal certainty. When the opinion that you express has explicit room to evolve, they know there is going to be a respectful space to share their own ideas.

Source: blog.glowforge.com