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amacalac

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Show value in as little steps as possible.

If it needs access to my real system data, tell me why, and guide me through the all steps I need to complete to set it up.

Write out every step. Make it obvious. Come back to your instructions the next day and make them simpler, and more obvious.

Have as few steps as possible.

Time to value is key here.

$50 to move past your bottleneck? I’d say that’s worth a fortune in ROI if you had:

a) poor design sense; b) poor design engineering (you have good design sense but can’t figure out how to build it); c) taken more than your hourly salary to learn a + b.

Agree with understanding if you could do it cheaper and faster next time, but the rule of 3 usually applies: “good, fast and cheap, pick 2”

It looks like you’re on the right track; pragmatism about specific tools, and their use cases.

Hopefully your friend sees the value in the tool and a big ROI too!

Like GPS replaced Paper Maps and map reading with Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze etc.

The world still spins, directions are now something we take from a computer.

Most people arrive quicker; and some without any thought, arrive in a pond at the end of a laneway because they haven’t considered the computer might be wrong.