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Is this really just a consequence of terrible ideas combined with a bad mental model for execution? The way I think about ideas is like the many-worlds interpr
by LASR 3y ago
Is this really just a consequence of terrible ideas combined with a bad mental model for execution?
The way I think about ideas is like the many-worlds interpretation. You want to have a superposition as broad as you can be and then narrow down into a single collapse outcome for your idea.
This means that every little move you make, you think about how to deliver on that successfully, but you are continously also thinking about where and how you could pivot without throwing everything away.
Ultimately, it boils down to the question of reversibility. So a pivot is not a backtrack, but a course correction from where you are now.
Trying a bunch of shit and seeing what sticks is the privilege of the wealthy.
A few examples of what I mean:
- TikTok games - did you explore adjacencies? What about a TikTok task list app? Instead of some pointless minigame, pull up the list of tasks from say GitHub issues / JIRA / Asana etc and surface that as a kind of focus-mode for your work.
- Chatbot -> webapp. Chatbot -> x is just a terrible idea in general. But maybe you could salvage this by thinking more about what 'x' is. But you really can't since whatever you think 'x' is, someone is already doing it. So maybe 'x' is a variable. OpenAI's GPTs is 'x' -> Chatbot. Maybe an inversion of this? It could even be simply a recommendation app. Like above Tiktok for x. Given a problem, it suggests steps / tools to use etc.