How to Throw Someone
The reason all of this relates to you is because I’m not talking about Judo. I’m talking about my tech startup. The Ultimate goal of making money, but if you can’t attack the problem directly due to the complexity of challenge. You have to break it down into its constituents and use that to make a roadmap to get there. To start working on a HARD, complex problem, you have to break it down into goals/systems you can control. The biggest goal is out of your control. It doesn’t matter what it is, if it has anything to do with real life, it is by definition complex, to the degree that the number of unknowns that can deter you are limitless. You can’t just focus on doing what you can control, everything should tie back into the ultimate goal. The reason the steps have to be constantly re-assessed is because the steps are just assumptions to the complex goal. The steps are simple assumptions to a complex goal, but you can never truly know why it worked or why it didn’t.
You can try different simple assumptions to see if it works. Now the question of how to track if something is working or not is a hard task.
Let me boil it back to Judo: Ultimate aim (complex goal) : Throw
off-balance
Push/pull/ or use your legs to throw. The reason this is a seperate step is that you can’t directly push someone down easily you have to off-balance them by creating angles, feinting .
We focus on the off-balance movement with no resistance essentially simple system. The outcome is clearly visible, you can see/fell that they are off balance . Now we practice the throw with no resistance, simple system known inputs & outputs. Now when we fight we are making a list of simple systems.
In a complex fight when I try and off-balance someone, they will resist, so I have to try another method. The important thing to realize is that now you have to adapt to the complex system, but you use the simple system as a first step.
That’s what I need to do for my startup, and an important note is when you start you don’t know how to do deal with the complex system so take the simple systems as gospel. Mastering the rules before you can add your own style.
Do as the sensei says, you can’t contradict them because you have never thrown/ done a startup. In this case my sensei is going to be “The lean startup” and strategies, This will be my sensei and I will master those methods. I’ll talk to mentors about it and then we’ll figure out what to do.