Selling the fix, not the lesson
We set out to teach people how to pose. They wanted the finished photo. What PoseUp taught me about the distance between what a product teaches and what it delivers.
Writing
One idea from cognitive science per piece, applied to a decision I actually made, with what the data said afterward. The first pieces are being written now — each entry below is a real draft, not a placeholder promise.
We set out to teach people how to pose. They wanted the finished photo. What PoseUp taught me about the distance between what a product teaches and what it delivers.
Calorie counters don't make people lose weight, and brain trainers don't make people smarter — yet both categories thrive. On the gap between felt progress and measured progress, and what it's fair to build on it.
Completion, not answer quality, turned out to be the binding constraint in Selfmap — and every onboarding flow since has been designed like an experiment protocol first, a funnel second.
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