Phil Wolff
Product Hospice
Published in
1 min readMar 10, 2015

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tiny sample. good info. no in-medium comments? the scary bit…

In general current metrics don’t predict future growth. It’s hard to see the effects of optimizations over long periods of time.

ouch. so you cant tell if your paddling is moving you toward your destination or if you are just thrashing and splashing while currents take you where they may.

Current metrics don’t predict the future. Optimizations don’t scale linearly and it is hard to see when the improvement stops contributing to the bottom line.

and we don’t even have enough info to know we’ve overshot and it’s time to quit.

whyyyyyy?

verrrry early days. learning to paddle before we can use sails or steam engines. growth team are still in the canoe stage, viscerally close to nature. the conceptual models that lead to engineering, navigation, oceanography, cartography, hydrodynamics, marine architecture, are a generation or two ahead of us.

so we’re focused on paddling efficiently. on becoming one with our environment, intuitive and present.

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Phil Wolff
Product Hospice

Strategist, Sensemaker, Team Builder, Product guy. Identity of Things strategy (IDoT) @WiderTeam. +360.441.2522 http://linkedin.com/in/philwolff @evanwolf