Fascinating. The word “project” encapsulates a lot of these — from software to a party — establishing norms without a more tangible/legible “stake in the ground” (say, starting a Running Club) seems more ephemeral and we don’t really have good words for it.
Thought-provoking post here. There’s a gap in the vocabulary around this.
There’s a more general version of this post that might have said “does your conversation have a goal, or not?”. I thought about using that lens, but something about the product-ness makes things more concrete to me.
[edit: I missed that you said ‘project’, as opposed to ‘product.’ Project might work, but I think ‘product’ still carries a bit more of the connotations that I care about. There’s a particular way that I work together with someone on a team if we’re building something that we’re planning to sell. Or rather, there are particular failure modes I don’t fall into there. And part of what I’m (weakly) claiming is that those intuitions are useful to port over]
Fascinating. The word “project” encapsulates a lot of these — from software to a party — establishing norms without a more tangible/legible “stake in the ground” (say, starting a Running Club) seems more ephemeral and we don’t really have good words for it.
Thought-provoking post here. There’s a gap in the vocabulary around this.
There’s a more general version of this post that might have said “does your conversation have a goal, or not?”. I thought about using that lens, but something about the product-ness makes things more concrete to me.
[edit: I missed that you said ‘project’, as opposed to ‘product.’ Project might work, but I think ‘product’ still carries a bit more of the connotations that I care about. There’s a particular way that I work together with someone on a team if we’re building something that we’re planning to sell. Or rather, there are particular failure modes I don’t fall into there. And part of what I’m (weakly) claiming is that those intuitions are useful to port over]