Why You Shouldn't Be Solution Obsessed

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Every idea is merely a stepping stone for a better idea. What matters is the problem, not any one solution. We're free to pit ideas against one another ruthlessly in the name of progress towards solving our problem for forward. That's how you get health care to billions of people and build the world's most scalable health care system.

This week we’re profiling Adrian Aoun, who founded Forward into 2017 to turn healthcare from a service into a product and reach 1B+ people globally. Before founding Forward, Adrian served as the Director of Special Projects for Google CEO Larry Page, founded Sidewalk Labs, and served as an advisor to the White House on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Here are the 3 big ideas in this week's Cheat Sheet:

Principle: Be problem obsessed, not solution obsessed.

Framework: How to predict the future from first principles.

Insight: Why healthcare should be a product—not a service.

Read the newsletter companion to this episode:

https://www.cheatsheetnewsletter.com/p/problem-obsessions-and-predicting-the-future

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Forward’s Adrian Aoun | My Favorite Books, Tools, Habits and More

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Forward: Bringing Healthcare as a Product to a Billion People | Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO

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