I am often wrong
I am often wrong September 19, 2026 [I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. That means going back and redefining #3-5, and repeating. This process is iterative and for complicated problems, it can take many tries to get right.
- ▪I am often wrong September 19, 2026 [I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well.
- ▪That means going back and redefining #3-5, and repeating.
- ▪This process is iterative and for complicated problems, it can take many tries to get right.
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| Original publisher | Boris Cherny’s Blog |
| Canonical URL | https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:41:46 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-20T19:08:46.855Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-20T19:08:46.855Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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I am often wrong September 19, 2026 [I shared this note with my team earlier this week, and am posting it here as well. I hope it is interesting or helpful for others working on building product in the age of AI.] Something that people learn quickly when they work with me is that my approach to pretty much every problem is: Understand the available information Gather missing information Define the problem Define a clear and simple approach to solve the problem Define a goal Act with urgency to achieve the goal Along the way, I will often learn new information. That means going back and redefining #3-5, and repeating. This process is iterative and for complicated problems, it can take many tries to get right.
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