Empirism

• Empirism is…
  • … knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed
  • … what will happen is unknown. Only what already happened may be used for forward-looking decision-making
  • … working in a fact-based, experience-based, and evidence-based manner
  • … progress is based on observations of reality, not fictitious plans
  • …a scientific approach based on evidence: any idea must be tested against observations, rather than intuition
• To apply it, we need to…:
  • …know/setup the goal
  • …Inspect and adapt frequently
  • …Be transparent