Stories about how to pick low-hanging fruit are more easily verifiable.*
Stories about how to pick distant fruit are more difficult to verify, and call for a different means of evaluation.**
Stories about how to improve tree growing/orchard cultivation processes take a long time to verify, even if they propose a small change with a tiny cost. These also call for a different means of evaluation—if implemented, feedback is on a different time scale.
* “Just get a ladder.”
**If two people get two regular ladders (that are twice as tall as the average member of the group), there’s not a lot of waste. A ladder that’s ten times as tall could be taller than the tree, and if it doesn’t work, or a shorter one would have worked better, that’s a lot of waste.
Possible interventions are stories.
Stories about how to pick low-hanging fruit are more easily verifiable.*
Stories about how to pick distant fruit are more difficult to verify, and call for a different means of evaluation.**
Stories about how to improve tree growing/orchard cultivation processes take a long time to verify, even if they propose a small change with a tiny cost. These also call for a different means of evaluation—if implemented, feedback is on a different time scale.
* “Just get a ladder.”
**If two people get two regular ladders (that are twice as tall as the average member of the group), there’s not a lot of waste. A ladder that’s ten times as tall could be taller than the tree, and if it doesn’t work, or a shorter one would have worked better, that’s a lot of waste.