#productdevelopment As a type five in the [[Enneagram]], I love questions. In fact, I love questions much more than I love answers. The _right question_ is a much more enticing concept to me than any particular answer, because a question precludes a journey, a problem I can solve, rather than an answer which just tells me the result. How boring. And my ultimate question is *"What is the least amount of information I can have to make a really good decision on this? What information do I need, and how do I get that information, so that I can make the right choice?"* That is, to me, what life is all about. I love figuring things out, and time is my most precious resource. So how can I figure something out in the least amount of time, with the least amount of energy, and still make a good decision? What fun! (It's about approximation. What can we reasonably approximate to reduce the effort that's required to fully understand it, and how can we do that approximation well? There is a way of thinking about this that I'm not putting into words right now, but it comes from my physics and PhD background. [I thought of this while reading the [[How to Think Real Good (a blog post)|Problem Formulation section of the blog post How to Think Real Good]]. It elaborates on the ideas of [[Scientific Models]].]) Startups embody this mentality. If you're not making decisions on the fly, you're crashing. And the decisions you make had better be good ones, and you had better be re-evaluating them constantly. Some decisions you need to think long and hard about, but many more need to be made here and how, at the drop of a hat, so that you can keep moving forward on what's important. Getting the not-super-important stuff out of the way as quickly as possible, while still making reasonable decisions and considering all of the relevant information, gets you back to focusing on the super important stuff. And how the heck do you do that? How do you, how do I, figure out what the "right" decision is in a short amount of time so that we can keep moving forward? I don't like getting stuck, I like to move. We can re-evaluate when more information comes in, rather than seek it out a-priori and delay the decision and the most relevant information (the result) until days or months down the line. Let's just _do_. This is a big part of my mentality, and it's why I love the startup and entrepreneur world so much. Even if I'm not a part of a startup itself, being around and in the ecosystem allows me to think about all of these extremely interesting, complex, and nuanced problems about how to provide value to the world. How *fascinating*. --- [[Exploit Unrecognized Simplicities]]