Not sure if you were asking me, but … I mean VOI in terms of “do some form of actual math or pseudomath to determine whether you genuinely expect further investigation to be worth the time.” Sort of the … layman’s technical sense of the term? Like, I’m not an economist or a mathematician, but my understanding and use of the term came from economics and math.
Thanks. That answers my question; seeing VOI capitalised and immediately acronymed made me think that it might be a Named Concept.
When you’re thinking about whether to keep pulling on the thread of inquiry, do you actually write down any pseudomath or do you decide by feeling? Sometimes, I think through some pseudomath, but I wonder whether it might be worth recording that information, or if thinking on paper would produce better results than thinking “out-loud.”
I usually do something akin to “rubber ducking.” I don’t necessarily write it down, but I say it, out loud, in complete and coherent sentences as if talking to a real person. Disciplining myself to do that causes me to put things in explicit, sensible order, and if I try to put things in order and find that I can’t, that’s a good flag that I need to clear up some sort of confusion.
Often I do this with some kind of currency exchange—like, I’ll try to quantify both the additional information and the time and effort I’m spending on it in a common unit so that it’s not hard to do comparisons.
Not sure if you were asking me, but … I mean VOI in terms of “do some form of actual math or pseudomath to determine whether you genuinely expect further investigation to be worth the time.” Sort of the … layman’s technical sense of the term? Like, I’m not an economist or a mathematician, but my understanding and use of the term came from economics and math.
Thanks. That answers my question; seeing VOI capitalised and immediately acronymed made me think that it might be a Named Concept.
When you’re thinking about whether to keep pulling on the thread of inquiry, do you actually write down any pseudomath or do you decide by feeling? Sometimes, I think through some pseudomath, but I wonder whether it might be worth recording that information, or if thinking on paper would produce better results than thinking “out-loud.”
I usually do something akin to “rubber ducking.” I don’t necessarily write it down, but I say it, out loud, in complete and coherent sentences as if talking to a real person. Disciplining myself to do that causes me to put things in explicit, sensible order, and if I try to put things in order and find that I can’t, that’s a good flag that I need to clear up some sort of confusion.
Often I do this with some kind of currency exchange—like, I’ll try to quantify both the additional information and the time and effort I’m spending on it in a common unit so that it’s not hard to do comparisons.