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The information I could have gained with that simple web page—but didn’t—is what we call validated learning. It’s what any MVP provides: understanding what people actually want, not what we think they want. The goal of a sequence of MVPs is traction: to show that each experiment is driving superior customer behavior compared to the one before.

The Startup Way

Eric Ries

A child who has heard 48 million words in the first three years won’t just have 3.7 times as many well-lubricated connections in its brain as a child who has heard only 13 million words. The effect on brain cells is exponential. Each brain cell can be connected to hundreds of other cells by as many as ten thousand synapses. That means children who have been exposed to extra talk have an almost incalculable cognitive advantage.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

meaningful relationship is one that’s open and honest in a way that lets people be straight with each other.

Principles

Ray Dalio

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