Tag: internal

Build Measure Learn Loop and Making It Falsifiable

Post author By jrlsage
Post date February 7, 2018

How quick can you align?

If you don’t know what this means, read this first.

The power in the build-measure-learn(BML) loop is in alignment. This alignment, with the market, our team, or project helps us right our ship.

It is a great “thinking” tool. Experiments are a great way to test your concept.

However, this is only true if it’s falsifiable.

There are two ways that one can fail falsifiability that stand out to me:

Inside of the experiment (“Who wants free money?” -Who doesn’t)
Outside of the experiment (“We are batting 10/10” – You aren’t trying anything)

Remember that you can’t think and know at the same time.

If all your experiments tend to be right, it might be time to question if you are “thinking” or not.

Tags BML, External, false, internal

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Show Up, There is Always a Prize When You Do

Post author By jrlsage
Post date November 3, 2016

Go to work, show up

Every day you show up, something happens.

Sometimes that “something” is external. We earn accolades, money, validation.

Those are nice and necessary. Helping someone or making something happen feels good.

However, the external isn’t permanent. If that were it, then showing up wouldn’t be nearly as important as it is.

Something happens to our brains when we “do.” The change that happens is internal. We earn a little more know-how, form habits, and understand the language of what we do.

We take those things with us.They make up our foundation. The starting block for our taste.

There is always a prize for showing up.

Recognize, however, that no one else may see that prize.

Then show up anyway.

Tags change, internal, prize, show up

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Being “Seen” isn’t Always Good, Especially When Nothing Comes Back

Post author By jrlsage
Post date July 5, 2016

A glance doesn’t mean an understanding.

On Facebook Messenger, by default, has read receipts.

A read receipt is a notification to the sender of a message that the receiver saw it. While this has some practical applications (say certified mail), having this as a default has a profound psychological result.

When something is “seen” with no response, we create opinions.

“Creating” isn’t good because we default to negative, which means terrible ideas.

Ideas like:

That person doesn’t like me.
They don’t care about what I have to say.
Maybe my opinion wasn’t necessary.

We internalize those ideas, and they turn into feelings.

The negative feelings start small and then grow into something uglier later.

The good news is that by reading this, you are aware.

There are tools to short-circuit the negative response.

Tags growth, internal, negative, opinion, starting small