Aneesh Sharma Says a Good Result Does Not Prove a Good Decision
Aneesh Sharma believes that good decision-making requires looking beyond the outcome and understanding the information, reasoning, and circumstances behind a choice.
The Difference Between a Decision and Its Result
New Hampshire, USA, Oct 12, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — A good outcome can make a decision look better than it actually was. A bad outcome can make a reasonable decision look worse.
Aneesh Sharma has become interested in that distinction through his experiences in analytics, education, and football. For Sharma, the more useful question is not simply whether something worked. It is whether the decision made sense based on the information available at the time.
That way of thinking is useful in football, but it also applies to many areas of life. People make decisions with incomplete in...
