{"id":10077,"date":"2017-04-14T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2017-04-14T18:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:42:51","slug":"ryan-singer-on-the-voltage-that-completes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/ryan-singer-on-the-voltage-that-completes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Singer on The Voltage That Completes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Tweet breakdown. Like ball breakdown for complex basketball plays, I attempt to break down the complexities of this genius tweet:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/542046114791178240\/n3uSJI7z_normal.jpeg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Ryan Singer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjs?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@rjs<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjs\/status\/797119275156828160?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">11\/11\/16, 8:50 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Tech by itself is like an open circuit. The job to be done is the voltage. It closes the circuit and makes the current of progress flow.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>Tech by itself is like an open circuit.&nbsp;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">An open circuit just sits. Nothing flows. Nothing works.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Diagram credit Bob Moesta<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image2-24.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"D4040B06-7053-4112-808E-3039A0F183BE\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i>The job to be done is the voltage. It closes the circuit and makes the current of progress flow<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Like priming the pump.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The system of voltage flowing relies on the system of decisions. What happens exactly before the customer makes a choice to adopt a new solution?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image3-11.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"19EA2B12-0F61-4EEB-9972-C8563C7E4D8B\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23jtbd&amp;src=hash\">#jtbd<\/a>&nbsp;is jobs to be done. The theorem is the nitty gritty steps where the proof (like in geometry) comes via checks written by customers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image1-43.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"526CE5E9-31B9-40ED-B65E-A476ED8A0A1C\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/download?ref_src=MailTweet-iOS\">Download<\/a> the Twitter and read the<span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23jtbd&amp;src=hash\">#jtbd<\/a>&nbsp;feed.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">This JTBD is part of the practice of making money.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image4-7.jpg\" alt=\"image4.JPG\" id=\"3E3CB105-1321-4080-A742-3E0F21C6BFF5\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">As an extension to Jason Fried&#8217;s practice, see the <i><b>progress flow<\/b><\/i> that Ryan Singer speaks to.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">What initial steps will you as a stanford engineering undergrad take!?!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/image5-4.jpg\" alt=\"image5.JPG\" id=\"DA7DF8F7-8555-40B8-B3B0-04788B2C5307\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Tweet breakdown. Like ball breakdown for complex basketball plays, I attempt to break down the complexities of this genius tweet: Ryan Singer (@rjs) 11\/11\/16, 8:50 AM Tech by itself is like an open circuit. The job to be done is the voltage. It closes the circuit and makes the current of progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-distribution-selling-promotion-skills-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}