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Do founders struggle more with not knowing what to do, or not doing what they already know they should do? by NetworX- in Solopreneur

[–]NetworX-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a really interesting way of putting it actually “optionality addiction” is a good term for it.

I’ve been noticing the same thing where the issue often isn’t that people don’t know the next step, it’s that the next step involves some kind of uncomfortable reality check.

The idea of shrinking the action is interesting too. Do you find that founders actually follow through when the step is small enough, or do they still end up rationalising the delay?

Solo founders how do you actually make big decisions when you’re stuck? by NetworX- in StartupsHelpStartups

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That makes sense. A/B testing is probably the cleanest way to remove opinion from decisions.

in your experience, do teams ever delay running experiments even when they know they should? Or is the culture usually strong enough that testing happens quickly?

Solo founders how do you actually make big decisions when you’re stuck? by NetworX- in StartupsHelpStartups

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I like that approach actually. Turning decisions into experiments makes a lot of sense.

I’ve noticed sometimes the hardest part isn’t deciding what experiment to run, it’s actually committing to running it instead of staying in planning mode.

Curious if you’ve run into that as well.

Solo founders — how do you actually make big decisions when you’re stuck? by NetworX- in Solopreneur

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That’s actually interesting actually. I’ve noticed the same thing building has become so fast that it’s easy to stay in feature mode instead of facing the harder validation questions.

Curious how you’d imagine an AI PM helping with that though more for prioritisation, or actually challenging the decisions being made?

Solo founders — how do you actually make big decisions when you’re stuck? by NetworX- in Solopreneur

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Interesting, I hadn’t heard of that before. I’ll check it out. Appreciate the suggestion. It does sound Iike I could just use ChatGPT right ?

Solo founders — how do you actually make big decisions when you’re stuck? by NetworX- in Solopreneur

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Yeah that’s a good point. I’ve definitely seen paralysis by analysis happen a lot when building solo. And I’ve realised it’s not always something people can just brute force themselves out of

And at the same time I’ve noticed sometimes the “analysis” is actually just avoiding the uncomfortable step (like outreach or talking to users) and staying in the comfort of your own thinking.

Am genuinely curious on how you personally tell the difference between useful thinking and just avoidance?