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Michael Roberto
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Michael Roberto's personal blog at michael-roberto.blogspot.com covers business and career. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its description of the 'unfocus group' UX research activity. It was cited in a thread about UX activities that startups use.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings about Leadership, Decision Making, and Competitive Strategy
What Hacker News says?
I haven't heard of these either, so I went looking for links: card sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sorting unfocus group http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfocus-group.ht... I couldn't find anything for "collage groups", but I can definitely see where the first two activities could be useful. Keep in mind that while "the average startup" (whatever that is) doesn't necessarily perform all of these,…
Comment linking /2010/01/unfocus-group.html
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