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If you’re building a product for customers (not just for yourself), you’ve got to test your assumptions early on with your potential users.

Test Your Assumptions Before Implementing Them: Introducing Enroll

(As a side note, I’d ignore the product pitch…I think whatever considered method you use to test assumptions is fine, as long as you’re doing just that.)

Je t’aime

Je t’aime
Grand comme une maison.

Je t’embrasse
Mouillé comme la pluie.

Je chante
Gai comme un pinson.

Mais si tés mechante
Je te tire les cheveaux

Et quand tu fermes les yeux,
Je te fais des bisous partout.

Marya L’Hène

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I think we should not let the very real dangers posed by echo chambers blind us to the degree to which we need sameness in order just to have a conversation that advances our thinking. The speakers need to share a language, have a deep set of assumptions and norms in common, have the same goal for the conversation — are you passing time, trying to make a friend, trying to make a deal, etc. — and have a topic that they’re both interested in. While too much sameness can lead to an echo chamber, a conversation cannot happen without a Costco-size shopping cart of samenesses.
David Weinberger, What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World
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[We are] sitting here on my sad, pathetic American sofa looking at your disgustingly wonderful photos. We are emphatically envious of your cosmopolitan lifestyle — if Lacoste and Prada procreated, you would be their offspring — and we hate you for it. Happy New Year.
Compliment of the New Year.
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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking