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Benedikt Kantus's avatar

I heard the term "Enabling Constraints" for this.

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Sean Byrnes's avatar

I love it! I've not heard it before but I'm going to use it going forward.

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Benedikt Kantus's avatar

I think it may have been John Cutler who first used it.

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Ari's avatar

Great post.

Reminds me of a passage from Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance in which the professor at one point deals with a student that is stuck on a writing assignment. He tries getting her to write about something specific (a town)...then more specific - still stuck....write about a house - nothing - ...a brick in the house....Frustrated he then he tells her to write about her thumbnail (or something like that) and it all gushes forth. The point is constraints can indeed unlock value.

Also if memory serves many great/durable companies get started during recessions.

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