"The answer lies not in better tools or more time, but in three interconnected capabilities: psychological safety that permits genuine learning, cross-functional collaboration that surfaces diverse perspectives, and systematic frameworks that make assumptions explicit and testable. These are the human systems that transform discovery from a sequence of tasks into a continuous learning loop where reasoning itself improves with every cycle."
"Cross-functional teams, comprising product managers, engineers, designers, user researchers, and others, each bring unique perspectives to the discovery process. However, judgment only develops when these perspectives combine. The challenge isn't getting better at your own function. It's learning to reason together. Solo founders and small teams face the same challenge from a different angle: you must develop these multiple perspectives within yourself."
AI reduces the time and cost of building software, shifting the constraint from execution to judgment about what to build. Strengthening discovery judgment requires three interconnected human capabilities: psychological safety to enable honest learning and candid debate; cross-functional collaboration to surface diverse perspectives across product, engineering, design, research, and business; and systematic frameworks that make assumptions explicit, prioritize riskiest hypotheses, and create rapid, testable experiments. Teams develop judgment by reasoning together and iterating through continuous learning loops. Solo founders must internalize multiple perspectives and use the same practices to develop multifaceted judgment across product thinking, technical feasibility, usability, and business viability.
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