People who understand and can articulate enduring principles without going mad in a sea of bad ideas will perpetually increase their own value in an organization. Thank you for this article. I don't share so much of the cynical view of leadership intent, but I can understand it.
Logically that makes sense. I did not lose 120# that way, but if it works for others, cool. I chose to target a different goal than weight loss, and weight loss came along as a side effect. My goal was to increase my fitness, which is defined as "work capacity across broad time and modal domains." (CrossFit definition). Choosing fitness as a goal was a forcing function that ensured that my HDL, triglycerides, A1C, fasting glucose, body fat %, bone density, lean muscle mass, and all the other important stuff all also went in the correct directions.
We have a special language for monitoring our metrics at work. It's fussy and obscure. I replaced it with SQL on our team, which despite "not being good for timeseries data" works fine for this.
The intent of a the "minimum" in MVP is to produce something quickly in order to learn what resonates with people who might actually pay you money for something. It would be useful to have a "detect my disasterous security vulnerabilities" scanner with various language plugins for go, dart, swift, whatevs that I can run on the source of my MVP so that I don't have to waste time reading a checklist. Does that exist? Dunno.
