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

So build-measure-learn does not actually translate into fixing any mistakes, because the feedback loop only fits into the timebox once. By the time you have built, it is time to build the next thing. In this context, the knowledge that the thing was the wrong thing to build is merely a burden.

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

This is when product managers wake up to the fact that they have all these user researchers sitting around day-drinking, and run after them for help. But instead of research, they need help with something called "validation" which is where we prove we were actually right all along.

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

Since we do not care what, if any, problem we are solving, validation is the perfect tool. "Find us a story that proves us right." There are various names for this. @miniver.bsky.social calls it decision-based evidence making. Wikipedia calls it Morton's Fork. Either way it's malpractice.

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