A useful strategy move: figure out how to frame a product problem as a ranking problem.
- A useful strategy move: figure out how to frame a product problem as a ranking problem.
- Ranking problems give you continuous hills to climb.
- That gives you a self-steering northstar metric.
- That makes the problem default-converging.
- If you can get a good enough answer to start, then that gives you a viable solution on a path where the more you invest, the better it gets.
- Often, one or two cleverly-chosen signals that distill authentic desire from real users in scaled ways can quickly get you to a good-enough result to start.
- Ranking problems have a Grubby Truffle shape.
- You accrete ranking tweaks that now automatically keep producing value.