/starting.yaml
Created May 12, 2019
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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