Evidence Over Attestation
“The people you want would rather publish a zero than a flattering estimate, because their credibility is the product.”
Publishing an unflattering number is not humility; it is the product, because it is the only reason anyone should believe the flattering ones.
More lines from the same part
- “Not the best in the world at any of them; good enough in each to know what a right answer looks like for the customer.”
- “Superficial oversight yields superficial governance, and the customer inherits every gap the leader could not see.”
- “AI has the speed. Founders and CEOs must supply the proof, and the people who will not take a green light for an answer.”
- “Real innovation is the deliberate constraint that makes machine speed trustworthy for a customer who will never read the code.”