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Vinai Rachakonda's avatar

Insanely good post. WOW

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Tom Kerwin's avatar

“This will be painful and awful. You’ll feel stupid today, to feel smart tomorrow.

Which is much better than the pivoting approach, where you feel smart today, but stupid tomorrow.”

This exposes why it’s such a tough row to hoe.

Few chose pain of uncertainty today, unless they’ve experienced just how much worse that pain later is!

As to the rest: totally agree. Except on lean startup - it sounds good, but it’s a terrible concept for the reasons you outlined. It sounds smart to identify assumptions, craft hypotheses and make targeted experiments. It never works, except by accidentally triggering unfolding.

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