From Solutions to Problems
Lessons learned while shifting paradigms at work
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9 min readJul 14, 2020
Once upon a time a couple of years ago, one of my mentors (and favourite people in the world) repeatedly drilled the idea above into my brain. Her advice for Product people was to “fall in love with the problem, not the solution”. At the time, I stubbornly went along with it without understanding the importance of this one principle. I…