Thin slices
Read this book. Gladwell explains the concept of “thin slices” or taking snapshot instances of data and arriving at conclusions from them. The premise is simple. Most decisions can be broken down into a series of logically connected and sequential information slices. More often than not the most important part of the decision is based on the first slice which contains the information. Very pacy read and nicely constructed though on the face of it appears to be a bit hyped.