Starting - creative prompts
# Prompts for beginning new projects | |
start: | |
- "#5ps#" | |
- "#heart#" | |
- "#disirability_feasibility_viability#" | |
- "#practical_step#" | |
- "#build#" | |
- "#story#" | |
- "#ooda#" | |
- "#morale#" | |
- "#audience#" | |
- "#you#" | |
- "#aha#" | |
- "#strategy#" | |
- "#selling#" | |
5ps: | |
- "5 Ps: #purpose#" | |
- "5 Ps: #principles#" | |
- "5 Ps: #priorities#" | |
- "5 Ps: #plan#" | |
purpose: | |
- What is the job to be done? | |
- Why should this exist? | |
- Where do we want to be in the future? | |
- What will we deliver? | |
- Write down why you started this. | |
- What do you want out of this? | |
principles: | |
- What are the non-negotiables? | |
- What are the key strategies? | |
- How will we act? | |
priorities: | |
- How do we decide what to compromise? | |
- What is the framework for tradeoffs? | |
plan: | |
- Do a workback | |
- What are the known dates? | |
- What are the forcing functions? | |
- What are the bottlenecks? | |
people: | |
- Who is accountable for it? | |
- If you it to happen, make it a job title. | |
- Who is the absolute best in the world for this? What motivates them? | |
- Work the rolodex. | |
- Can I find a way to do it without the best people? | |
heart: | |
- What is the truth that I need to tell? | |
- Find the fun | |
- What am I drawn to? | |
- Would this still exist if I disappeared tomorrow? | |
- Remember your passion. | |
- What is the right thing to do? | |
- What truth needs to be heard? | |
- What do I believe with a deep and abiding passion? | |
- What do I want to see in this world? | |
disirability_feasibility_viability: | |
- "#disirability#" | |
- "#feasibility#" | |
- "#viability#" | |
disirability: | |
- What could I make that would cause burning desire? | |
feasibility: | |
- Blue sky | |
- Brass tacks | |
- What is the bottleneck? | |
viability: | |
- Who wants to buy this? | |
- Money is a constraint that defines how long you may operate. | |
practical_step: | |
- Make a list. | |
- Make a mind map. | |
morale: | |
- What would build energy? | |
- What would make you excited? | |
- What would make progress quickly? | |
build: | |
- Start with a toy. | |
- Copy something with immaculate consistency. | |
- Build to think. | |
- Create some choices. | |
- Modularize later. | |
- Chewing gum and string. | |
- Make progress as fast as possible. | |
audience: | |
- "What makes them #emotion.lowercase#?" | |
- "What do they want out of this?" | |
- "What's in it for them?" | |
you: | |
- "What makes you #emotion.lowercase#?" | |
- "What do you want out of this?" | |
- "What's in it for you?" | |
emotion: | |
- Excited | |
- Afraid | |
- FOMO | |
- Inspired | |
- Excited | |
- Ah-ha | |
story: | |
- What is, what could be, call to action. | |
ooda: | |
- What phase of the OODA loop am I in now? Refocus tactics on that phase. | |
- "OODA: #observe#" | |
- "OODA: #orient#" | |
- "OODA: #decide#" | |
- "OODA: #act#" | |
observe: | |
- What are my go-to-tools for observation? What tools do others use? | |
- What are the processess in play? | |
- What is happening around me? Why? | |
- Try shadowing someone. | |
- Follow a process through to its end. | |
- Walk the factory floor. | |
orient: | |
- How do I orient when faced with a new problem space? | |
decide: | |
- Is it better to make decisions quickly or carefully? | |
act: | |
- How can you measure the outcome? | |
- What are the key metrics? | |
aha: | |
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. (Schopenhauer) | |
selling: | |
- Ask for buy-in. | |
- Ask people to work against their better judgement. | |
- Ask people to go with their gut. | |
- Ask a favor. | |
strategy: | |
- Where can you go that no one else will? | |
- An element of surprise. |
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