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'Follow the user', Advice for startups, & optionality fallacy

Sep 4, 2022
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How to Eat an Elephant, One atomic concept at a time

Follow the user

Developing empathy with your user is a fantastic way of building products. You need to predict your end user’s behavior & choices. By the way, personally, I call this ‘follow the user‘.

Reading this piece will show you how to match your product with your user’s anticipations. You’ll also learn about market transitions. How to keep evolving yourself & create your product dynamic in nature with the changing times.

Read the complete article by Kwok Chain


Starting a company in a Market Collapse

This is a good read if you want to know how are startups in general going to change their direction & map out their way in this economic downturn. It will also give you a sneak peek into strategic thinking & founders’ mindset.

Read the full article


The optionality fallacy

It’s an article showing how we shouldn’t live life on autopilot mode. And avoid being indecisive as much as possible. We are obsessed with optionality. Not sure what to do with your life? Most people will tell you to get a degree. Not quite sure what to do with this degree? Go to grad school. Still not quite sure? Get a consulting role at a big firm so you can decide what kind of job you enjoy. And so on and so forth. We fall prey to the optionality fallacy.

As Erik Torenberg puts it, it can be
"Spending your whole life filling up the gas tank without ever driving.”

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