📜 notes/journals/2023_03_15.md (contribution by @forshaper) ☆ 📎

[[Niche]] [[market]] [[problem]] [[detection]]:
- Who is [[asking]] for help with a problem? Which experts are asking for help with a problem? Who is helping them?
- Who is asking for [[solutions]] to a problem they think they will face in the [[future]]? collapsed:: true
  - What are the common [[recommendations]] they get?
    - Who is recommending?
    - How do people react to them when they are openly selling something?
    - Is there follow-up on recommendations?
    - How do [[people]] [[pay]] for a recommended [[solution]]?
      - How much do they pay?
- What is their [[workflow]]?
- What [[hacks]] are they using to patch the [[problem]]? collapsed:: true
  - Is there a Google Doc doing something that would be better served by dedicated [[software]]?
- What are they [[hiring]] for?
- [[Ask]] them about what is getting in their way.
- Look out for [[complaints]] about [[boredom]] or tedium, because they indicate a [[problem]] with [[friction]] that impacts [[time]].
- Resource [[costs]]- how could resources be freed? collapsed:: true
  - [[Expense]], [[money]] complaints. Are the wrong people working on wrong things?
- [[Mask]]-related complaints: wanting to be someone. [[Status]] or [[autonomy]]. Ways to show they are [[trust]]worthy, ways to show off their [[skills]], and ways to [[show]] they [[belong]] to a [[group]].
- [[The Eisenhower Matrix]] can be used to determine [[urgency]], similar to a [[triage]] [[priority]]. collapsed:: true
  - [[Awareness]] of the [[Problem]]: collapsed:: true
    - Problem unaware
    - problem aware
    - [[Solution]] aware
    - [[Product]] [[aware]]
    - Most aware
- Where do people go out of their way to [[avoid]] things that they wouldn’t call a [[problem]]?
- Adherents [[avoid]], starters [[solve]]. collapsed:: true
  - What is in your way?
  - What is a [[pain]] to do?
  - What is annoying?
- What [[block]]s you from doing your job properly?
- What is pointless to do?
- What parts of your [[skill]] do you want to improve?
- What are you putting off [[starting]]?
- How do you [[show]] that you are an [[expert]]?
- How can you [[help]] others [[win]]? collapsed:: true
  - Do you [[celebrate]] wins?
- What do others [[see]] of what you do?
- What is in the way of your next [[win]]?
- What do you have to do to [[climb]] the next step of the [[hierarchy]]?
- What would make you feel [[safe]]?
- What [[challenge]] did you [[overcome]] in [[life]]?
- What would you prefer to not do at [[work]]?
- What is the most [[boring]] [[problem]]?