Netflix says Geography, Age, and Gender are “Garbage” for Predicting Taste

“Geography, age, and gender? We put that in the garbage heap,” VP of product Todd Yellin said. Instead, viewers are grouped into “clusters” almost exclusively by common taste, and their Netflix homepages highlight the relatively small slice of content that matches their taste profile. Those profiles could be the same for someone in New Orleans as someone in New Delhi

http://fortune.com/2016/03/27/netflix-predicts-taste

psychological safety and teams

http://qz.com/625870/after-years-of-intensive-analysis-google-discovers-the-key-to-good-teamwork-is-being-nice/

3 simple things you can do

  1. Frame the work as a learning problem, not an execution problem. Make explicit that there is enormous uncertainty and interdependence ahead.
    2. Acknowledge your own fallibility. Say simple things like “I may have missed something. Your input is important”.
    3. Model curiosity. Ask a lot of questions. This will create necessity for people speaking up.
    Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson

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