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> removes any doubt When you say this, I'm not sure if you mean that the book: A. Removes doubt from the things that are genuinely simple and straightforward,
by afarrell 6y ago
> removes any doubt
When you say this, I'm not sure if you mean that the book:
A. Removes doubt from the things that are genuinely simple and straightforward, freeing your mental energy to focus on the complex dynamic uncertain parts.
B. Deceives you into thinking there is a cookie-cutter solution to be applied without concern for uncertainty and risk.
- muzani 6y agoThat's a typo/mistranslation, but the edit button was disabled by the time I noticed it. I meant to say it removes anxiety, and didn't mean to say "any". It answers most questions in the product discovery/PMF stage. But that's a good question. IMO, there's two chaotic things humans have to deal with - war and software. Both of these adopt a lot of processes to deal with all the chaos. There's an interesting military anecdote by Joel Spolsky. If you're at a mine field, you stop. If you're being shot at, you charge at the enemy, while shooting back. If you're in a mine field and being shot at, which do you do? You charge and shoot because stopping will just get you picked on one by one. These rules are thought out in advance, so everyone knows what to do in the situation. The book is similar, but for startups. It feels rigid, but it tells you the next step. So my answer is A.