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The playbook glossary

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The playbook uses a few familiar words more precisely than the rest of the internet. Each definition says what the term means here and where it first does useful work.

The terms

Disqualifier
Something that, if true, makes you stop pursuing a person or a segment. Written down before the conversation, or it isn't one. Chapters 2 and 3
Evidence ladder
Signals ranked by what they cost the person giving them. Praise at the bottom, money at the top. Anything below attention is atmosphere. Chapter 2, artifact 02.02
First customer
One specific, reachable person who has the problem and could start this month. Not the biggest prize; the nearest honest test. Chapter 2
The nine-week no
A refusal that arrives so slowly you keep building while you wait for it. The expensive mistake isn't choosing wrong; it's choosing slow. Chapter 2