Weekly Digest #91

Articles

5 Steps to Bounce Back from a Negative Performance Review

1. Don’t take it personally.
2. Approach it with a growth mindset.
3. Get clarity.
4. Know how to measure your success.
5. Implement a feedback loop.

12 Common Cognitive Fallacies

Supercharging A/B Testing at Uber

Parameter decouples code from experiments. Instead of referring to the experiment name or treatment group in the client codebase (mobile or backend), the code branches on parameter values. Parameter always has a safe default value (usually equivalent to the “control” path), which ensures that the clients operate smoothly if a new overridden value doesn’t exist or isn’t received from the client due to network issues.