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Month: October 2025

The Psychology of Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers

October 13, 2025

Why “Better” Doesn’t Win—Notes on Shipping Around Human Psychology As someone who studied SymSys with a concentration in cognitive science before my coterm, I…

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Eager Sellers Stony Buyers: Loss aversion

October 13, 2025

Loss aversion and buyer resistance Loss aversion helps explain why buyers often resist new or upgraded products even when there are objective benefits. People…

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BUSINESS: Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers

October 13, 2025

Everything’s a Tradeoff That’s the most valuable systems design advice I’ve ever received, and I’ve found it applies to product management as well: that…

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Leveraging the Knowledge of “Loss Aversion”

October 13, 2025

Loss Aversion and Buyer Resistance As I learned in my behavioral economics course in undergrad, people weigh the value of a loss much more…

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Eager Sellers Stony Buyers

October 13, 2025

This reading clarified something I’ve often sensed in product work but hadn’t had language for: people don’t resist innovation because they dislike change itself,…

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Can One Business Unit Have Two Revenue Models?

October 13, 2025

This reading made me think a lot about how the “fit” between a market and a revenue model is less about theory and more…

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User Story Mapping – a reflection

October 13, 2025

This approach both complements and corrects how I’ve worked before. In Lean Launchpad and CS147, we were trained to start with people, hypotheses, and…

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BUSINESS: Eager Sellers Stony Buyers Reflection

October 13, 2025

Given that the article describes human consumer behavior as being stubborn and loss averse while seller behavior is described as eager and idealistic, I…

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BUSINESS: Eager Sellers Stony Buyers – Pratham Hombal

October 13, 2025

Maximize Easy Sells Product managers can balance the desire to innovate and introduce new features with addressing buyer resistance using a multitude of techniques….

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