The Scientific Parent
For PM parents who treat parenting like a series of A/B testsâbecause if you're going to fail, you might as well collect data on it. Set your kill criteria before trying that new bedtime routine.
The Five-Friend Survey
Product marketers run quick surveys before big decisions. Try it for parenting dilemmas - five friends, one question, twenty minutes.
Inspired by Ada Chen Rekhi
Find What Works Through Testing
Adam Grenier's growth playbookâtry things, see what works, double downâis basically parenting. Not every method works for every kid.
Inspired by Adam Grenier
Decide When to Quit Before You Start
Annie Duke on pre-mortems: Set kill criteria upfront. Same with parenting experiments. Decide in advance when to call it and try something else.
Inspired by Annie Duke
Throwing Away Six Months
Brandon Chu killed a feature after 6 months. Not because it failed - wrong problem. Sunk cost fallacy kills products and bedtimes alike.
Inspired by Brandon Chu
Test It with 30 People
Crystal Widjaja ran experiments at Gojek with sample sizes of 30. The precision changes, but the direction doesn't.
Inspired by Crystal W
Ship Small, Learn Fast
Gaurav Misra's rule at Captions: every engineer ships a marketable feature every week. Apply this to parenting experiments too.
Inspired by Gaurav Misra
Test Before You Commit
Itamar Gilad learned from Google+ that betting big on untested ideas is expensive. Start with cheap tests to build evidence first.
Inspired by Itamar Gilad
Safe-to-Fail Experiments
Lauren Ipsen on running small experiments to test hypotheses. Try parenting approaches as experiments, not lifetime commitments.
Inspired by Lauren Ipsen
Only Track What Matters
Ben Williams distinguishes data collection from decision science. Tracking everything vs. tracking what matters. Same with parenting apps that log every millisecond.
Inspired by Ben Williams
Test with Real Humans First
Keith Coleman tested Community Notes with real users before building anythingâyour parenting theories need actual toddler testing too.
Inspired by Keith Coleman & Jay Baxter
Write It Down Before You Need It
Lane Shackleton's rule: Coda documents product principles so decisions are clearer under pressure. Same with house rulesâdecide before the tantrum.
Inspired by Lane Shackleton
Keep Your Beginner's Mind
Marc Benioff's meditation practice taught him: in the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
Inspired by Marc Benioff