Begin With Returning and Developing Players
The initial self-directed audience includes returning adults and developing players who can articulate practice concerns but need continuity and structure.
Capture
The initial self-directed audience includes returning adults and developing players who can articulate practice concerns but need continuity and structure.
Why
- they can describe problems;
- they may have prior training;
- they often lack current support;
- they can evaluate suggestions;
- they may already consume Ben’s content.
It ignored the repeated parent-support problem that shaped Ben’s teaching experience.
Why-Not
The rejected path would make begin With Returning and Developing Players too easy to treat as an implementation detail instead of a public boundary. The ADR preserves the tradeoff explicitly so later product work cannot silently widen authority.
Commit
Decision: The initial self-directed audience includes returning adults and developing players who can articulate practice concerns but need continuity and structure.
The decision becomes a constraint on future product behavior and public positioning.
Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.
Timestamp
2026-07-17