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chrisweeklytoday at 7:27 PM1 replyview on HN

I may be missing something, but the "left" and "right" loops strike me as slightly different words for the same exact thing.

The company provides (offer | service) to the (market | user) and receives (feedback | payment).

The service IS the offer, the userbase IS the market, and payment IS the feedback signal.

Right?

EDIT - expanded on original comment to add:

The author's point might be lost on me but seems to be that framing things with one of those sets of labels vs the other may correspond to use of "complexity" vs "uncertainty" as the element targeted for reduction, and choosing those labels carefully in turn correlates to "senior" devs' persuasiveness in prioritization battles with product owners. To which my response would be, "maybe?". (shrug)

I'm not a copywriter by trade but I care about words and may have just been nerd-sniped.


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DougWebbtoday at 7:54 PM

The company is providing existing services to existing users for payment.

The company is offering potential new services to current and potential users in the market and getting feedback on how valuable those new services might be.