Lounge S3: Designers

Lounge S1: Software Founders

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How do you strike a balance between executing on your vision and the lindy wisdom to “just talk to your users”?

I've found talking to users (or customers, people in general) incredibly useful for "problem finding", and not useful for "solution finding"

Once I've found a worthy problem, I get to work on coming up with experimental solutions

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I like to remind myself that it's not the customer's responsibility to solve the problem, it's ours. 

Customers tend to be so close (and accustomed) to a problem they face that they can't see the problem/solution from a fresh perspective

My favorite sort of problems to work on are ones where I know the problem well because I have it too

In these cases it's useful to get signal on whether the problem I'm working on is a unique one-off to just me, or representative of growing cohort of people

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