<h1 id="checkl">Checkl<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#checkl"></a></h1>
<h2 id="questions">Questions<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#questions"></a></h2>
<h3 id="problems">problems<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#problems"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>how do they solve X?  </li>
<li>how much do they pay for X? what is their budget?</li>
<li>when was the last time they encountered X? <a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #7ebd01;" href="/notes/otrZWMgjXbx5ew2vauJgv">#star</a></li>
<li>what have they done to solve X?  <a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #7ebd01;" href="/notes/otrZWMgjXbx5ew2vauJgv">#star</a></li>
<li>how much time do they spend to solve X? <a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #0f9b8e;" href="/notes/W7MMf8jQj5gMK6q9TVQLn">#mw</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="nosignal">nosignal<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#nosignal"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>is problem not a big deal?</li>
<li>is it the wrong persona?</li>
<li>does customer not care for implementation?</li>
<li>is customer fatigued about pitches?</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="compliments">compliments<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#compliments"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li>why do they like idea?</li>
<li>how much money would it save?</li>
<li>how would it fit into their live?</li>
<li>have they tried alternatives?</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="generic-answer">generic answer<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#generic-answer"></a></h3>
<p>ask for specific example</p>
<ul>
<li>what parts do you love/hate about X? </li>
</ul>
<h3 id="hypotheticals">hypotheticals<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#hypotheticals"></a></h3>
<p>anchor to past behavior</p>
<ul>
<li>when was the last time this happened?</li>
<li>what have you done about this?</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="ideas">ideas<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#ideas"></a></h3>
<p>understand motivation</p>
<ul>
<li>understand
<ul>
<li>why do you want that?</li>
<li>what would that let you do?</li>
<li>how are you coping without it?</li>
<li>is this something you need at launch or can be added later?</li>
<li>how would this fit into your day?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>emotion
<ul>
<li>tell me more about that</li>
<li>this seems to bug you</li>
<li>what makes it so awful</li>
<li>why haven't you been able to fix this</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="copies">Copies<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#copies"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li><a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">discovery.interviews.checklist (Private)</a></li>
</ul>

Checkl

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## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can read about how this blog is structured below and go down your own trail!

![[dendron://kevin-public/home.schema#^begin]]

## Contact

You can find and contact me in the following places (sorted by frequency of use):

- Email: kevin(at)dendron.so
- Twitter: [`@kevins8`](https://twitter.com/kevins8)
- Github: [`@kevins8`](https://github.com/kevinslin)
- LinkedIn: [`@kevinslin-thence`](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinslin-thence)

## Working in the Open

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Code for this blog is available on [github](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-garden).

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