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Build Governance
Kindling's decision layer for what gets built.
How it works
- 1The premise is that when you can build anything, the constraint moves from capability to selection, and building for the joy of building quietly produces products with no value in them.
- 2Start from a problem statement, never from an idea.
- 3Let the problems govern the roadmap instead of chasing one big idea.
- 4Separate value in the process from value in the product, because a fun build can have plenty of the first and none of the second.
- 5Stay industry agnostic early, then let categorization emerge from volume.
Hear it on the podcast
The 10-Minute Morning Routine That Replaced an Entire Project Management StackListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Prototype-to-Production CanyonJason's core point on why vibe coding a working demo is nowhere near a shippable product.Portfolio of Solutions, Not a Portfolio of SoftwareJason's reframe of what Kindling is actually accumulating.The Chief of Staff PatternThe app Jason has in testing. Structurally it is two agents working a shared surface.The Scope DumpJason's antidote to avoidance-by-unknown-scope.The Pressure LineThe diagnostic both of them land on.Ryan's First Anti-Avoidance MoveOne item from a list of twelve, framed as Ryan's personal conviction rather than a business tactic.
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