Topic
jobs to be done
- On Validating Product Ideas
Building new things is an expensive, arduous, and long path, so product builders are always hunting for means to validate new ideas. Chasing ghosts is costly and deadly. The "data-driven" culture we now live in discou…
- How to Think About Your Competitors
For any company, keeping track of your position in the competitive landscape is an important element of making the right decisions. When I think about competitors, I think about them separately as "direct" vs. "indire…
- Jobs Clubhouse Does
If you're on the internet and haven't been living under a rock for the last few months, you've heard about the startup Clubhouse and its explosive growth. It launched around the time COVID lockdowns started last year,…
- Weekend Reading: Liberal Science, Roam42, and JTBD Examples
🧠In Defense of Being Offensive Jonathan Rauch on pluralism and the necessity of disagreement in the search for truth. His book Kindly Inquisitors was first published in 1993, but is as relevant today as ever. The bo…
- Weekend Reading: American Growth, JTBD, and Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
📉 Summary of The Rise and Fall of American Growth Concise summary of Robert Gordon's book on Roots of Progress. 👨🏻‍🏫 Guide to Jobs to be Done Interviews A solid comprehensive, step-by-step overview of how to condu…
- A Nomenclature for Low-Code Users
The low-code "market" isn't really a market. Rather, I see it as an attribute of a software product, an implementation factor in how a product works. A product providing low-code capability says nothing about its inte…
- Shipping the Right Product
This is one from the archives, originally written for the Fulcrum blog back in early 2017. I thought I'd resurface it here since I've been thinking more about continual evolution of our product process. I liked it bac…