Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

The Release Cycle of Care

Why empathy is much more than MVP

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Eric Near
Dec 11, 2025
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Most startup failures aren’t technical. They aren’t caused by the language stack, the database choice, or even a bad scaling model. They are, almost universally, human.

We in the tech sector, especially in the breathless, venture-fueled atmosphere of the startup world, have built a religion around the concept of iteration.

We obsess over the Minimum Viabl…

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