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# when you cross the street, you remove data
- URL: https://www.arrieta.io/when-you-cross-the-street/
- Published: 2025-01-09T22:38:18.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-17T00:23:12.000Z
- Description: more data--such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street--can make you miss the big truck.
- Author: luis arrieta
- Tags: notes

the following passage from N.N. Taleb made me think of my Garmin watch with its [48 vital signals that I get after a 3-mile run](https://www.arrieta.io/48-signals/).

> More data--such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street--can make you miss the big truck. When you cross the street, you remove data, anything but the essential threat.  
> (Nassim N. Taleb, Antifragile)

Also, the higher the number of non-essential employees in a company, the higher the number of "vital signals" that will be produced and analyzed.