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We want to find the truth of how to make our business succeed. We need to dig for it—and dig deep—but every question we ask carries the very real possibility of biasing the person we’re talking to and rendering the whole exercise pointless.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rule of thumb: Opinions are worthless.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rule of thumb: If they haven't looked for ways of solving it already, they're not going to look for (or buy) yours.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.
ratfactor.comYou and Your Research
Richard W. Hamming's lecture emphasizes the importance of pursuing significant research, setting high personal goals, and fostering confidence, creativity, and dedication to achieve excellence in one's career and contributions.
d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.netTalked with a Head of Eng at a startup who added a pretty clever “fingerprinting” to a takehome exercise to get proof if it was completed by copy+pasting it into an LLM.
100% of takehome submitted were done like this. He asked ppl submitting if they used any AI: 25% said yes
Gergely Oroszx.comPerplexity’s Deep Research using the API in combination with Claude Sonnet 3.7 to help write market research content in minutes. https://t.co/JmFam5zpDc
Aravind Srinivasx.com