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timestamped/2025-12-17_12-32-00.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ and something very specific.[^3]
     especially to someone unfamiliar with the specifics of either.
 
 For lack of a better term I've been thinking of this as an SEO problem,
-but the bigger problem is that it invites [[ambiguity#Category Mistake|Category Mistake]],
+but the bigger problem is that it invites [[category-mistake]],
 whereby the ignorant listener associates traits unique to the example
 to all things that the name could describe.
 

timestamped/2026-03-20_13-27-12.md

@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ That is, quantifying the influence of an input on the output.
 When an estimator says that some factor is not worth consideration ("it's pennies")
 it is usually meant that the estimate is not especially **sensitive** to that factor.
 
-Sensitivity, I think, is a much quicker concept to grasp
-than [[uncertainty#Value of Information|the value of information]],
+[[sensitivity|Sensitivity]], I think, is a much quicker concept to grasp
+than [[value-of-information|the value of information]],
 even if VOI can explain the same motivations and more completely.

timestamped/2026-03-23_12-48-49.md

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+---
+id: 2026-03-23T12:48:49-04:00
+aliases: []
+title: 2026-03-23 12:48:49
+tags:
+  - authorship/original
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/draft
+  - type/periodic/timestamped
+  - occupational
+dg-publish: true
+date-created: 2026-03-23T12:48:49-04:00
+daily: "[[2026-03-23]]"
+weekly: "[[2026-W13]]"
+monthly: "[[2026-03]]"
+quarterly: "[[2026-Q1]]"
+yearly: "[[2026]]"
+---
+# 2026-03-23 12:48:49
+
+Joel asked me to give feedback on the project engineer
+I've had shadowing and helping me on [[charlotte-south-end-hotel]].
+
+They've been exceptionally engaged,
+with an impressive ability to follow along with procedures
+that are based in electrical and general construction considerations
+that they weren't already familiar with.
+I told Joel the same.
+
+I added that I appreciated that their engagement extends
+to my explanations of my thought processes during takeoff,
+which can be quite abstract.
+
+I found the PE's receptivity
+a pleasant surprise.
+
+In my experience training estimating,
+both at Ace and PDI,
+I have to be _very_ careful with my words
+to prevent unintended interpretation.
+More than once I have said casually
+that some low-[[sensitivity]] consideration "doesn't matter",
+finding later that the student has over-generalized the direction
+and is not properly discriminating
+between significantly different cases.
+Other times,
+the student continues to discriminate between nearly identical cases
+even despite repeated instruction
+that consideration of the differences is not worth their effort.
+
+I think both behaviors indicate an inability for abstract thinking.
+The first case seems like over-abstraction,
+but in practice it is usually rooted in the principle of least effort.
+That is, the student assumes
+that considerations that would be _unpleasant_ to account for
+are the same as those that are not worth accounting for,
+which is a [[category-mistake]].