The 29th Edition - On The Aha Moment, spotting weak arguments & Steve Jobs vs. consultants
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Have you seen the Last-Mile Mobility graveyard landfills in China? (source)
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💡How to quickly spot weak arguments (4 mins)
We make arguments all the time, and here are 3 ways to spot weak ones.
I like the “pyramid of disagreement” method.
Stash it in your arsenal!
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“Without owning something […], one learns a fraction of what they can.”
Steve Jobs rips into consultants, and a good reminder for job-hoppers and salaried workers in general.
For the full lecture, go here.
Remember
"Across time periods, across cultures, across genders, there are no lines that a desire for freedom hasn’t crossed." - Taylor Pearson (source)
"Poorly run companies often punish executives who are too familiar with reality, and consequently operate in a realm of shared delusion." - Will Larson (source)
Consider
The Aha Moment: Intuitively, the concept of the Aha Moment made sense to me. I learned more about it from Reforge. The Aha Moment is the second phase of activation, in which your users go from signing up to establishing a habit with your product. Aha Moments are crucial to creating engaged and retained users. Activation is the bridge between marketing and product, bridging the gap between consumer interest and activation. (source)
Conviction Level in Product Can Vary: At Tesla, even 90% conviction in a feature or capability is not enough. Even for something like Voice Assistant, the decisions need to be airtight. Contrast that with a startup where it might be enough to do a few tests and deem it good enough to launch. (source)
Don’t Reinvent The Wheel: The biggest revelation from Wardley Maps was how you could easily make sense of what to buy and what to build when you broke down your product into parts. Here’s a list of things you shouldn’t reinvent in a SaaS product, probably: Authentication/user management (Firebase/Auth0) - Payment processing (Stripe) - Event analytics (Mixpanel/Amplitude) - Referral system (Referral Rock) - Email automation (MailerLite) (source)
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