Gaurav Misra
Ship Small, Learn Fast
Inspired by Gaurav Misra episode
Gaurav Misra's rule at Captions: every engineer ships a marketable feature every week. Apply this to parenting experiments too.
You want to teach your toddler to use the toilet? Great. Don't announce a three-month potty training roadmap with seventeen illustrated steps. Just put the potty in the bathroom and see what happens.
Ship small, learn fast works in product development because nobody knows what users actually want until you put something real in front of them. Same energy with kids, except the user keeps peeing on the floor and screaming that the potty is "too cold."
Your grand vision of a fully potty-trained child who chooses their own underwear? Adorable. Completely useless until you've watched them sit on that potty once, declare it "broken," and walk away.
The MVP is Wednesday afternoon. One attempt. No fanfare. No sticker chart yet. Just you, them, and a piece of plastic shaped like a throne for ants.
You'll learn more from that single disaster than from any book written by someone whose kids are already in college.
