Would you voluntarily spend another five hours on this kind of problem? Why?
Technical Product & Leadership · 75–100 min
Turn a vague request into a decision
Experience listening, problem framing and transparent trade-offs.
Start the experiment01 · Setup
What you need
- A small project and one person willing to discuss it.
You may stop when the timebox ends. An incomplete result is still useful evidence.
02 · Task
The work sequence
- 01
Start with a vague request such as ‘make search better’.
- 02
Ask five questions about user, pain, evidence and constraint.
- 03
Write three options with cost, risk and what each does not solve.
- 04
Recommend one reversible next step and record the decision.
03 · Pay attention
Watch your reaction, not only the output
- Did clarifying the problem feel more useful than proposing features?
- Could you disagree without making the conversation personal?
Plot twist
Difficulty does not mean the career is a bad fit. The useful question is whether curiosity returned after the difficulty.
04 · Reflect
Three honest questions
Which part gave you energy, and which part drained it?
What evidence—not a salary video—would you gather before choosing this path?
This site does not save your answers. Put them in your own notebook if useful.
05 · Where to go next