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title: '**sensitivity**'
description: >-
  **sensitivity** — In Nabeel Hyatt's framework, the founder trait behind
  genuinely new AI products: extremely close listening to actual behavior, and
  the ability to connect small product choices to customer insight
  [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1495]. The canonical case is Granola's
  founder noticing that each tab-press, error, and correction pulled him out of
  the meeting and killed eye contact — self-awareness of his own experience led
  the product to its real form [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1520]. On
  Hyatt's founder spectrum, sensitivity is the counterpoint to **kinetic
  energy** (pure horsepower); taken too far it becomes analysis paralysis,
  “listen[ing] to every animal in the forest” before taking a step. The founders
  worth backing have sensitivity paired with **an orientation to movement** —
  they move while still listening [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1620].
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/sensitivity-0bd1dbd99471.md
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# \*\*sensitivity\*\*

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**sensitivity** — In Nabeel Hyatt's framework, the founder trait behind genuinely new AI products: extremely close listening to actual behavior, and the ability to connect small product choices to customer insight [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1495]. The canonical case is Granola's founder noticing that each tab-press, error, and correction pulled him out of the meeting and killed eye contact — self-awareness of his own experience led the product to its real form [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1520]. On Hyatt's founder spectrum, sensitivity is the counterpoint to **kinetic energy** (pure horsepower); taken too far it becomes analysis paralysis, “listen[ing] to every animal in the forest” before taking a step. The founders worth backing have sensitivity paired with **an orientation to movement** — they move while still listening [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1620].

In this channel's material, **sensitivity** appears as the word Nabeel Hyatt reaches for when describing the founder trait behind products like Granola — not canonical brilliance or creativity, but founders who listen extremely closely to actual behavior and can connect small product choices to customer insight [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1495]. It is mapped on a spectrum opposite **kinetic energy** (pure horsepower): sensitivity means deep listening, though taken too far it becomes analysis paralysis — the artist trying to “listen to every animal in the forest” before taking a step. The founders worth backing pair sensitivity with **an orientation to movement**: they move while still listening [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1620]. The canonical example is Granola's founder noticing that every tab-press in the first tab-completion version pulled him out of the meeting, killing eye contact — that self-awareness of his own experience led to the product's real form [^aadbfc77-2045-528b-a149-9cf468b23383@1520].