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The Four Tires Test
Eric's filter for cutting a roadmap down to what a car actually needs to move.
How it works
- 1A car needs four tires and a platform to get from A to B, not an engine, doors, and a sunroof.
- 2Audit your roadmap like a cartoon character emptying a packed closet: don't need that, don't need this.
- 3The question is no longer "what should I build," it's "what should I not be building."
Hear it on the podcast
Stop Making AI Human: The Contrarian Take Every Founder NeedsListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Shower PRD MethodEric's method for separating thinking from tooling before a single prompt gets typed.Brief → Epics → Milestones → TasksEric's cascade for turning a rough idea into agent-ready, hallucination-checked work.Buy, Borrow, Then BuildThe sequencing Eric uses to avoid rebuilding infrastructure that already exists.Make AI More AIThe contrarian principle that gives the episode its title and its argument against humanizing AI.
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