My playbook as an entrepreneur is to get really frustrated by something, and then try to solve that personally.
Build what frustrates you daily
Discovery → Problem Identification
I used to write like a problem journal. Like just when things annoyed me or when things were less efficient, I would write it down as like a note. And I didn't try to solve it... I was just like, 'This is annoying.'
One tip is go look from the last week. For a week, just pay attention to what you do and what frustrates you. And when something frustrates you, think about, is there anything we can do? Can it be done a different way?
Jeff Weinstein is a Stripe PM discussing customer research techniques; "forget about thing" appears to be a transcription error for "forget about this thing."
Magic wand, what do you wish you could just have off your plate immediately? Forget Stripe, forget about thing, work on just in your whole life. What is it that you do not want to be doing?
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