This blog is solery for myself. I am not writing for anyone. It's just a practice of writing in English.
This morning I was trying to find my iPhone. It's so terrible when you find that you lost your phone somewhere else, especially a lot away from your home or office. I was horrified because the find my iphone GPS showed the place in the park that I visited yesterday. And the place was basiccaly nowhere in the park. I mean there were no buildings. So that meant the iPhone is not obtained by someone who preserve it safely. I knew GPS isn't accurate, but I did not know how far would be the margin of error. So I was worried and terrified. I hopped in my car, and drove there for fourty minutes. Imagine how miserable I was. Driving my car in a hurry, I was talking to myself like this. "Calm down, men! Everything will be all right. You will find your phone. It's no trouble, nor big time. You gonna be fine." But my mind wasn't like that, lOl. I knew that the battery was low, and was in panic.
As soon as I arrived the park, I started searching my phone. But I could not find it. I looked under the bench, up on the trees, around everyground in my sight. I was holding another I smartphone that shows the Find My iPhone page and looked every minutes to confirm the location. I was standing the exact location that it indicated. But my phone wasn't there. I pushed the 'calling the phone' button to see if I can hear it. But no sounds could be heard except the birds and car driving sounds. I was very desparate. I couldn't do anything but repeatedly seaching my iPhone. I was blaming myself and believing me missing some clues to find it. I was believing my stupidity and hoping the safe of my iPhone.
Then I started doubting if my iPhone was found by some evil guy. I googled if the location of iPhone can be spoofed. And there you go, bang! There are lots of articles about faking the location. And there are some article recently updated, too! My panicing mode became a peak. I looked the location of my iPhone like hundres of times but I find nothing. More I looked at it and found nothing there, more my anxiety went up. I couldn't go anywere else because I was afraid that I miss finding it. Besides, I couldn't think of anywere else to go.
There's the train station nearby, but they didn't have it. So I was pretty much over. I start thinking about reporting to the police so I can start the all those pain-in-the-ass process.
But then I noticed the location changed. The location indicated a lot more north laocation than it was originally. So I dashed to the location. Then the location moved to a more north position. I was confused. But I eventually arrived the park's administarion building. Then I understood what was happening. I was a bit releaved. I talked a person in the building. I showed who I am and filled the document. Then I finnally had my iPhone back in my hand. Thank God! I was so grad to get it back, practically no trouble, except my temper.
On the way back to home, I was sipping a cup of coffe, driving slowly, and listening to one of my favorite podcast. There was a podcast of Rochell King speaking. She is famous for designing spotify (I think) and now she works for Netflix. In their dialogue, She talked that data driven and data informed are different. People should judge by informed data, but should not allow data to judge for you. Because if the decision and judgement be done only by numbers, you are neglecting all the other qualitative data and other values, as well. If we are giving up our judgment on what we want to do, how we will become, it will miss-lead the future. It's a very strong and imortant point.
I have heard many people says that a project should be data driven. Everytime I hear that phrase I feel some awkwordness. Because from my working experience point of view, it's always difficult to collect the right data with right mesurement, in the first place. I have seen many projects that have meaningless KPIs and wrong mesurements. It isn't easy to be right and accurate. Second of all, values can't be simlify to just numbers. It won't reflect the whole reality. For example, if you say you are dead by ariplane clash. The insurance company will evaluate the cost of life, but that doesn't mean what your life value is. No one can reflects such a thing. So the world is, too.
Looking back to my incident this moring, I was driven by location data at first. I was at the wrong place to search, and was in wrong track of the way of thinking. And I was unhappy and felt stupid. I think that is how data driven is like. If I knew more about inaccuracy of GPS and if I'm more concious about the park management, maybe, I might have called the administraion office of the park, first. I guess my mistake was hooked too much on location data and not thinking about alternate actions. I was infromed that iPhone was there, but didn't think smart enought. My behavior and thoughts were drivend by the location data, and I was stuck. Although I've found my iPhone at the end, I won't be able to reach there if I couldn't combining the other informations and understandings of the situation.
Do not controlled your behavior by data. Imagine and think smart with informed data.
That's very basic way to say it, but it's important. Because people tend to be like that and I tend to be like that, too. So we must be careful.