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Stop Doing Discovery Karaoke
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Product Discovery & Validation

Stop Doing Discovery Karaoke

Match discovery to risk, not habit. Most teams default to interviews, tests, and betas, which miss blind spots. Treat Compliance & Ethics as a first-class risk. Build a simple map: risk → stage → methods. Use AI to speed clustering, summarization, and signal detection. Focus on uncertainty reduction
04 Jun 2025 7 min read
It’s a Great Metaphor, But It’s Still Not an MVP
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It’s a Great Metaphor, But It’s Still Not an MVP

That skateboard-to-car graphic isn't an MVP. It's a delivery roadmap. MVPs are for learning: the smallest test to validate riskiest assumptions. In complex orgs, call things correctly: MVP for learning, POC for feasibility, V1 for shipping. Clarity prevents waste and misaligned bets. Validate first.
09 Apr 2025 5 min read
Discovery Debt – When your product forgets faster than it learns.
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Discovery Debt – When your product forgets faster than it learns.

You talked to users and did research, but the system forgets. Discovery Debt is rotting context: insights learned, then lost. Work ships, learning vanishes. Fix it by wiring memory into decisions and backlogs so every ticket ties to evidence, assumptions, and outcomes. Make learning visible Always
03 Apr 2025 2 min read
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