> they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain points in a doctor

> they frequently talk about how tired they are of tech guys who read "The Mom Test" who now skulk around asking probing questions about pain points in a doctors daily work. Those tech guys are doing it wrong. If you want to address a particular market, the way you learn about the pain points in that area isn't to annoy the people working in it. It's to work in it yourself long enough to understand first hand. I'm certainly not saying to avoid asking people for their expert advice, I'm saying that interviewing people is better done once you have enough baseline experience to know what questions you should be asking.