toumhi

I'm currently taking it and loving it. What I took from it so far is a toolbox for better thinking.

Examples:

  - why you only have to convince small % of people for your idea to be adopted by most people (schelling models)
  - how self-organization in cities and other domains works (lyapunov functions)
  - multiple models for decision making (decision trees, spatial choice models)
  - how economic growth works and how innovation is the only way to avoid economic stagnation (whether it's a good thing is another story)
  - how linear models are super useful to understand complex situations
  - how diseases spread and why R0 is so important (quite timely with covid!)
  - how to try different perspectives and heuristics to solve problems
  - how culture evolves and how innovation works to change the culture
  - how networks work
  - and more things!

Yep, users don’t see the value in the product (as shown in the email from the user). “plug&play analytics” does nothing to explain what’s new and why it’s worth my time.

Based on the info from the post, there was no specific need and ideal customer profile in mind for creating this product.

It’s not like an unknown problem, but it’s crazy how often startups have fell in the “do stuff no one needs” and wasted months or years on it. It seems to be one of these things where you need to experience it yourself to understand it.

Self-help/personal development/philosophy:

- The obstacle is the way (Ryan Holiday)

- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

- Level up your life: how to unlock adventure and happiness by becoming the hero of your own story

- the six pillars of self-esteem

- so good they can’t ignore you

- the power of habit

- how to fail at almost everything and still win big

Business:

- soft sell: the new art of selling

- essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less

- the magic of thinking big

- everything is negotiable

- making things happen

- lean customer development

- what customers want

- inspired: how to create products customers love

- delivering happiness

The main objective of the product is to help job seekers identify which companies are worth spending time for sending an open sollicitation.

75% of the job market is "hidden" (jobs that were filled without the company ever posting a job ad). We help the job seekers to identify this hidden job market.

I currently work in a French administration predicting which companies are likely to hire in the next 6 months (in France).

It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency.

My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big french administration, bypassing their hellish processes), I also help in copywriting, system administration, monitoring, and the most interesting : machine learning using a huge amount of economic/recruitment data to predict which companies will hire. We have pretty good results!

It's a great gig and hopefully of social value to France which needs it at the moment (unemployment is at an all-time high right now).