{"id":23305,"date":"2025-11-19T21:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23305"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:44:30","slug":"fried-chicken-product-obsession-and-richard-feynman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/fried-chicken-product-obsession-and-richard-feynman\/","title":{"rendered":"Fried chicken, product obsession, and Richard Feynman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Passion is contagious, and I <em>love<\/em> when people deeply care what they&#8217;re bringing into the world. I had no idea I could find the details of fast-food chicken so interesting, but dang if founder Todd Graves&#8217;s enthusiasm doesn&#8217;t jump right off the screen. Seriously, give it a watch!<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nice clip for any product maker.<\/p>\n<p>(also highlights how every business is complex when you get into the details &#8211; it is useful to remember this because many in tech give the excuse \u201coh, my product is complex and special\u201d &#8211; EVERYTHING is complex and it\u2019s your job to deal with that) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zgd4uAsGsl\">https:\/\/t.co\/zgd4uAsGsl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shreyas Doshi (@shreyas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shreyas\/status\/1990117688446955888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of Richard Feynman&#8217;s keen observation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"554\" height=\"554\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3.png 554w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-3-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More tangentially, this gets me thinking back to my actor friends&#8217; appreciation of Don Cheadle&#8217;s craft in this scene from Boogie Nights. &#8220;I could watch that guy pick out donuts all day!&#8221; And even though I can&#8217;t grok the work nearly as deeply as they do, I love how much they love it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boogie Nights - Donut Shop Scene\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zubto7OIGns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passion is contagious, and I love when people deeply care what they&#8217;re bringing into the world. I had no idea I could find the details of fast-food chicken so interesting, but dang if founder Todd Graves&#8217;s enthusiasm doesn&#8217;t jump right off the screen. Seriously, give it a watch! Nice clip for any product maker. (also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23339,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions\/23339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}