🎉 New essay reflecting on my experiences so far as an "independent researcher"—ill-defined though that term is.
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Great essay, appreciate you being out there trying to answer these questions.
I'd be curious what you think of this approach:
1. Build something as fast as possible that's useful to you
2. Share what you've built in #1, and why it's useful
3. Process feedback
4. Repeat from #1
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It's a decent strategy for product development, but in my experience too shallow an approach to develop research insights.
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Got it thanks, makes some intuitive sense.
If you have any good resources (or insights that can fit in a tweet) on the difference between research and product development, I'd love to take a look.