acquisition cost

• learning Cost

In general, those who have not mastered the skill of doing X may think, “It costs a lot to do X, so let’s think of a workaround,” while those who have mastered the skill may think, “Even if I take the cost of learning into account, it is better to quickly learn and do X than to think of a workaround. 2017-04-15

How much does it cost to learn?

• That can’t be known in advance.

• You can’t know in advance, so you have to do something like “try to learn for an hour first” or else you can’t estimate.

• The problem is that they don’t do those challenges and assume the cost is too high and don’t want to learn.

  • People who are timid to learn.

• People who estimate the cost of learning by impressionism as high and end up taking detours.

  • estimate is often wrong

• Could use a mathematical model to describe what happens if we make a mistake in estimating acquisition costsExperiment needed

  • On the other hand, they find the cost of the detour cheaper.
  • There is a cost of acquisition and a cost of execution after acquisition.
  • Is it related to estimating techniques in uncertain situations?
  • Related Agile estimating and planning.

• Shibukawa

• That may be true when it comes to things that can be multiplied like skills, but there are areas where it’s like adding up knowledge. I feel that no matter how far you go in mastery, you will eventually converge on something like “each individual’s heaviness of one’s back”.

• I am not that attached to food, so it is a hassle for me to explore new restaurants, so I ask my wife to help me find places to eat or rely heavily on people in the know. I basically don’t watch TV programs, and only watch those that are pushed to me by people I know, saying, “I think you’ll like this, Mr. Shibukawa. I think I am more open to reading and translating English documents and writing books than others. I think Nishio-san’s example can also be broken down into areas such as learning the language and thinking about the overall workflow rather than just the tool itself.

• I think that the use of time resources is the same, and curiosity is also a finite resource, and there are several areas where people have “consumption < recovery,” but it varies from person to person. There are some areas in which people have a finite amount of resources, but I think it varies from person to person.

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