Tell me you’re a novice without telling me you’re a novice; examples:
- Product Managers who quote frameworks instead of *using* frameworks (with experienced PMs, product frameworks are so internalised they almost never cite them; got this from )
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- Judoka who focus on throws instead of grips. (Grips are often as if not more important than throws; assuming everyone can throw equally effectively)
- Founders who do marketing by talking about features instead of pains.
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Note, thanks to a prod by — these observations are meant to be positive, not negative! Do: “for every observation, this is how you can go after expertise”, not “oh so you’re a novice boohoo.”
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So:
- Internalise the intuitions behind product frameworks
- Focus on grips in addition to the mechanics of a throw
- Learn how the best founders link product features to customer pains.
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(I realise the framing of ‘tell me you’re a novice without telling me you’re a novice’ is somewhat negative, but then this tweet was literally inspired by a PM telling me “oh, I think so-and-so is still quite inexperienced; he keeps talking about theory.”)
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Is this a specific case of the general truth that novices and experts direct their attention differently? Novices tend to focus on the outcome more than the setup, etc.?
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I haven’t thought about this, I was mostly going off the observation (common in expertise research circles) that expert-novice differences are one of the most fruitful ways to dig into a particular form of expertise!
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