The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
Actions have consequences.
Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
Decisions are made by those who show up.
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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