The overwhelming amount information when you want to build something
So the title is pretty long right, but it is what it is :D
The amount of information one should consume when building something is mind-bogglingly high. So many terms, so many abstract ways of defining something.
So I am struggling a lot with that abstractions, I mean I understand them, but the thing is that I can't understand why those abstractions are there. Lets take for example product-market fit term.
Currently I am listening to this video so what Michael is saying is that companies and people often misunderstand this term. But this term is abstracted away from normal, real-life scenario so you can define a state in which the company and the product is.
But why do we have this term, either because we have a lot of companies which when generate revenue they scream that they have found a fit in some market or penetrated into existing one, I don't know.
What I think is that if you know that something is worth building you will never reach that fit in your head. If you thought about a product which helps let's say people with disabilities how one can define that he or she found a fit?
I understand that after that fit you have to scale, and in the video above Michael says that basically the company building starts right after the so called product-market fit. I would suggest that to be a milestone, like to feel if you are in this state, so you can focus on building the company after that. But that transition is not always correct right?
If we take that term as a definition of state for the company, the transitions between those state can be vastly different. In my opinion if you have the team that you believe is capable of creating new things, and all of you are really working hard to built the same thing, that abstraction will not be needed.
What I mean by that, I think that's only for business side of things to define those state, when we reach revenue things start to change right?
I don't know that yet, but I believe that that's the case. If we imagine this coding till it's done state, it doesn't matter if you have reached the product-market fit state or not, you will continue coding, creating, brainstorming until you feel numb. I think that's what drives the innovation. People who are misfits, outlaws, non conformists. By that I don't mean people who break the everyday laws, party till the end, drive bicycles on the wrong side of the road or something like that. By that I mean people who always ask why?. Why you do it this way, why can't I do it in another way or so. I mean that's a buzzword too but people who believe this they feel that word differently then others.
If you identify yourself in that section of people who always asks why, and really lives his/her life in a very different way then other you are true builders, you are the innovators, you are the creators of imaginary worlds and weird creatures.
So what I mean is that for that people, those terms, states product-market fits are not a thing, they will continue to build what they think is cool and fun.
So what does that have to do with the amount of information. Currently I am reading a lot of stuff about raising capital, building a company, go-to-market strategies and so. The amount of that info, the amount of that so-called company states are too much.
No one is actually teaching how to identify innovation, how to build that innovation. I believe the only way to teach this is to always talk about past examples. Let me give you an example, no one talks about how it will be if Mosaic wasn't that browser company, or if the way Netscape worked was different. No one talks why Project Xanadu couldn't make it to the public, and if it would, how the world will look like now?
Ah it's too much for today :D the information was really chaotic sorry about that, I was just writing what was on my mind. I will try to have a better flow in upcoming posts!
Thanks!