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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are two problem-solving approaches: 1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it or 2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems. The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

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Dominik Lenné @d-le-nen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🤣

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PointOnTheSpectrum @pointonthespectrum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I don't recall

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Christian Saints Podcast @xtiansaintspodcast.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

How is it stupid for tech to do this? It has made many people quite rich using this method. The stupid are the people who buy the tech, in DROVES, to solve problems a marketing department just made them aware they have.

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Marc Falcone @certainfalco.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@spavel.bsky.social - As a Product Manager, we should own the problems to be solved (sizing, cost of delay analysis, prioritizing), while engineering owns solutions. It always bugs me when I see product people operating as you've described.

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Señor Sabelotodo @senorsabelotodo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The default method of the Trump regime and Republicans as well

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The Morrigan @faefromthefield.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It’s also the Republican method

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Dr.JAM @feminista54.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Third way: ignore problem. ( what NYC did with Manhattan Bridge —just kept up painting it blue Until it need extensive work ~2094)

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sonia @soniabasz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's pervasive! I’ve seen it a lot in marketing over the past few years. People find a channel they like (social media, paid search, trade shows) and then act like an audience will just show up if they stick with it long enough.

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Dave Ferguson @daveferguson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

As a developer at a previous job said to me, "If all you have is JIRA, everything looks like a ticket."

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Ivan Čurić @ivancuric.npmx.social · 11/06/2025

So what you're saying is that we need more AI

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Igor cat @igor-kitty.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

You bring a "very good brain" to the problem. We obviously have the best brains.

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wreynkens.bsky.social @wreynkens.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I wrote my master thesis on experience based co-design in hospital services. The doctors had exactly the same problem. They never stepped into the waiting room where patients had to wait for hours but instead complained of patients being stressed or aggressive when entering the doctor's cabinet.

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Shylo Hana @shylohana.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If it ain’t broke, keep fixing ‘til it is.

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Scott Melchionda @scoo-capybara.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The second method is 90% of Techbro product releases.

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doGKnows @thedogknows.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Oh, you were talking about tech. Lol. My mistake. Thought you were talking anout a dofferent set of problems. 😅

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Bousie @bangbou91.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This sounds rather poignant after the rest of what I've read this morning...

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💙 CB Collins 💙 @cb-collins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And apparently government

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Bacchus Nair Farm @bacchusnairfarm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

that's exactly how nearly every company, from the top-down, is doing with AI.

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Colin @cmac930.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Almost always start with the why not the what

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S John @sjohn866.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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a man in a suit and tie is saying fix it !

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying fix it !

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Meredith @meredithcodes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Tailoring requirements to solutions, for the win! /s

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Alex Dickson @adicksondc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And this is why I struggle with the concept of AI taking our jobs.

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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Not unlike the approach to some academic research.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Seems to be the new default for so-called “government”.

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furballexpress @furballexpress.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I've referred to those things in tech often as "solutions in search of a problem that fits". Blockchain is a decent example...we turned it into currency backing math because that's the problem someone applied to it.

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tyronecapricorn.bsky.social @tyronecapricorn.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

2) Also known as "playing".

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donnyoh @donnyoh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Some solutions are illegal.

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True Patriots Believe In & Protect Democracy @donjorizzy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@karaswisher.bsky.social

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Li.Du🇩🇰🇬🇱🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @linedupont.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Well that does explain the correct DOGE upfuckery

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Bry Hitchcock @bryhitchcock.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Also how our govt is being run. Ideology first.

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Naz // lilacsnacc @lilacsnacc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

you forgot the secret third approach: create a problem, codify the problem into law, then sell a short-term solution that will never fully solve the problem

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 04/04/2025

Tech loves to talk about "moon shots," but the way tech approaches problems would require that Kennedy's challenge to the country was "we choose to build rockets!" with the destination and purpose to be worked out later

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Francesc 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇵🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺 @rhinomni.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

3) deny it’s a problem at all

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sisyphet.bsky.social @sisyphet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'm curious how many engineering students' final projects are "for rescue" in a really specific set of circumstances

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Von Neely @vonneely.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The problem is a bad connection between engineering and marketing. Ideally, marketing would say "this is what there is a demand for, go make a machine for it.". What we have instead is engineering saying "We made this thing, go find a market for it."

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commandx.bsky.social @commandx.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Hey, I just patented this molecule. What can it treat?”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

One of the most common preoccupations of a product manager is looking for "product market fit" which is code for "we built something no one wants to buy" Why would you do that?? Because the core sacred devotional activity of tech is developers writing code. Everything else warps around that act.

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mr-hipstrings.bsky.social @mr-hipstrings.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This actually sets a precedent for halting or slowing innovation. All those methods you are looking for to "solve the problem" don't just come because the problem triggered an investigation, sometimes the solution was there, sitting in the corner, needing an advocate.

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uglytown.bsky.social @uglytown.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sounds like #2 is the only way police and prosecutors work.

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KDOrgGetPOd @kdorg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll pls

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left-shark politics @andrewctenor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ok, I’ll bite: it’s not that dumb. A surprising number of successful drug developments, for example, have used this approach

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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And in politics.

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Winged Hussar @wingedhussar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's also a common way of doing science and it's not necessarily stupid at all. Typically, someone with a problem and someone with a tool run into each other all a conference or something and everyone wins. Still, a little different than the tech version.

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grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And of the US government

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Uwaine @uwaine.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

FMEA

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Captain Easychord @suddenstars.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Basically the same approach in education. They choose the thing they want to measure, which is of course whatever's easiest to measure. Then they mould education into a shape that can be measured by that criteria. "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

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Randy Coppinger 🎙🎛🎧 @randycoppinger.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_...

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Law of the instrument - Wikipedia

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Amy Pellegrini @amypellegrini.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There is a third way: Identify the problem you want to solve, and solve it in a way that creates more problems. Profit from selling the "solution"

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M J Murcott @m-j-murcott.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Second method is also often the one used in politics.

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Ananda Matos @anandamatos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

@unroll.skywriter.blue Please unroll

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Ananda Matos @anandamatos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This guy is on fire !

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a candle is burning on a piece of paper that says ' i love you ' on it

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Simple Slav @simpleslav.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The solution is always a rewrite!

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Five @5arah.com · 04/04/2025

Egyptians and Babylonians in 1600 BCE: identify problem, test, learn Today’s tech genius: yeah so we have this thing that eats entire civilizations and vomits up the worst things imaginable and will probably destroy us all, how can we use it to make better porn?

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Swede and Sour @swedeandsour.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Now that we have AI, we should apply it to everything!"

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‫‮Sayven @sayven.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"If you have a Rust, everything looks like a security and performance critical application to you"

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Joelly-Roly-Poly @uxaboveall.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

📌

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Revolutionary Jason @jason.revolutionarygames.co · 11/06/2025

The first one is really hard, though.

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aleatorio.dev.br @aleatorio.dev.br · 05/04/2025

@camilotk.ulivre.dev o que a gente conversou outro dia

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King President Orange Snowflake @ex-prezsnowflake.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And politicians

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Afterlife Abecedarian @abecedarian.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

And government now that the tech mind virus has taken hold

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Lisa Borden @lisawborden.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Funny, Republicans also use method 2.

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Totally Finebaum @butpawwwlll.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I sincerely believe #2 is Bitcoin.

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Freidrich @fred-mars.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

funny but exaggerated you talk about incompetent PM's who think they are the smartest in the world i did agile dev for 20 years taking into account final users at the very beginning of the evolution process and rarely faced the situation you describe

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Coffee maven @tina48.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I got a better one! Create a problem that doesn't exist. Defame people who "supposedly created this problem"! Spend billions in advertising defaming these people. Then arrest them & jail them as enemy traitors! SOUND FAMILIAR!😵‍💫😳🤦🏼‍♀️🤬

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Peter Wijn @peterwijn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

both tech and politics.

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Having Fitz @havingfitz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'm going to guess you have been working in this field a long time and are of the boomer generation. Am I right?

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The Bull Moose Progressives @bullmooseprogs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It’s time to put Silicon Valley back in their place and out of control of our culture

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Aaron Bossig @aaronbossig.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Corollary with #2, avoid acknowledging any problems where the solution cannot be monetized

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"I have a hammer here. I'm looking for nails. That over there looks like a nail." 🍉🔨 "Or maybe that." 🦶🔨 "OW!"

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Tom MacUaidh @tommacuaidh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

That’s the entire management consulting industry dismissed.

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Jim Samuel @jimsamuel.com · 04/04/2025

It is also the preferred method in politics.

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Angel @angellozan.live · 04/04/2025

Which way allows me to alienate as many people as possible??? 🧐🧐🧐

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Ian Johnson @redshiftedgame.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Is this how we got generative AI?

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phate @phate.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

nothing makes me more confident that genAI is useless than the fact that sundar pichai is telling me that it’s useful.

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Allison Louise Miller @allisone.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you get a new tool or learn a new method, though, it's a good idea to go looking for ways you can use it. What's bad is never developing new tools and methods.

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weirdo95.bsky.social @weirdo95.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I refer to that as CDD "CV Driven Development".

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Pink Salad @pinksalad.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is true in adaptive technology for disabled people, too. Can’t tell you how many entrepreneurs go around looking for “actual disabled people” to test this gadget they invented and are just sure will fix them.

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Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

3) look at problems around you and see if method you want to use can't be made to fit 4) [ I bet there's really more than two or three problem-solving approaches, isn't there? ]

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Bluntlicious 😶‍🌫️ @bluntlicious.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I just wait till my dj revolves it

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"You should all be thinking about how we can use AI..."

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tmacpaddywhack.bsky.social @tmacpaddywhack.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Decision Intelligence

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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 04/04/2025

I agree that starting with the problem and talking to people is the best way to solve it. At the same time tremendous numbers of successful tech products have been built in the last 30+ years so a lot of companies must be getting it right. Including some that seek PMF and “pivot”.

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Willowchomp @willowchomp.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Default method in tech? It’s the MO in our current clown show gov’t.

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Pulp Philosophy @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's the default method a lot of places. The ol' adage "when you only have a hammer, everything is a nail" and all that

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Katrin Rabow (she/her) @womanintech.online · 11/06/2025

As long as chocolate is the answer, I don't care what the problem was.

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teebee84.bsky.social @teebee84.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

for learning & educational purposes, it is not such a stupid method...

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Kim (is done playing nice) @doneplayingnice.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So so so so true.

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Slow Lorus @marylandrockets.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

For people selling solutions you are entirely correct. For those of us who spent their careers solving problems you are entirely wrong.

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flying_hun @flying-hun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Great thread! Having spent much of my career working in product development or adjacent to it, I saw the quality of the practices degrade justified by the pursuit of the ever elusive "efficiency".

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