We are not normal people
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We are not normal people
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#2seriously?
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#3Nothing is more normal for an individual than thinking he is not normal.
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#4Nobody's normal. Every developer and client is unique. And learning to listen to potential clients is sound advice.
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#5The whole point of the post is that we are different than our users. What we want, or what we think is important, often doesn't match up with what users really need.
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#6This is true for many things.
In a marketing class long ago the professor asked what % of the US beer industry was imported. The answers were all over the place, with most answers between 30 and 50%. She responded with, "It's less than 10%, and this is why you have to look at the #s rather than intuition even if you're a consumer of the product yourself."
Technical complexity and fancy features aren't what helps crack the bottom of the market, which is the heart of disruptive innovation. "Because it's cool and I like it" may have worked for Steve Jobs, but he's the exception and not the rule.
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#7Being pedantic, if you're thinking “I could use this new tool I just purchased!” then you're doing things backwards.
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#8seriously?
Yes.
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#9Being pedantic, if you're thinking “I could use this new tool I just purchased!” then you're doing things backwards.
How is that being pedantic? That's one of the main points of the article.