Understanding the Job

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as the short, famous introduction to Jobs To Be Done and competition framing.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Edward Capaldi

Topic

jobs to be done

Format

lecture

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is very much in the vein of Jobs to Be Done theory[0]. If you haven't heard of JTBD before, I would implore you to check-out Clayton Christensen's famous "milkshake" video here: [VIDEO] It goes into enlightening detail about the same framing of competition as …

• This video from Clayton Christensen gives a good summary of Jobs To Be Done using milkshakes at a fast food restaurant as an example: [VIDEO] Unrelated, but I saw Clayton Christensen speak at a conference years ago. He started out the talk by telling everyone …

• Also odd is the expression 'jobs to be done'. At first glance this seemed like an allusion to this famous ' Jobs to be Done ' Clay Christian talk [1] (well worth the 5 minute watch). But AFICT it's just coincidental use of the phrase. …