Null hypothesis

I don't like the word "plan". Plans assume that everything will go perfectly, and that rarely happens.  While I occasionally make a plan, what I have more of are hypotheses that need to be tested.

It's hard to change a plan, but it's very easy to change a hypothesis.

In fact, that's the whole post of hypotheses, to be tested. Even things I've done 1,000 times, I go into them with a hypothesis that in order to have success, we should do things a certain way.

However, sometimes, those hypotheses turn out to be incorrect, and they need to be reevaluated or peer-reviewed.

If you go through life assume that everything that has worked may not work the next time, and that everything you try is just a really compelling educated guess, then it's much easier to pivot when something doesn't work.

If you always assume your hypotheses can be wrong, then you will develop a null hypothesis and plan in case the opposite is true, instead of assuming your plan is just gonna work.

If you have a null hypothesi…