Contemporary · Craft & Focus · Essay
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
Paul Saffo · 2008
"Commit hard to a view so you can update fast when it's wrong."
The instinct is to hedge — hold beliefs loosely so you're never embarrassed. Saffo argues for the opposite: form the sharpest, most concrete opinion you can, and pair it with radical willingness to abandon it in the face of evidence. Sharp opinions test faster; hedged ones drift.
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