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No connection to the business model canvas, vague reference to agile development, pivot arrows but no explicit use of the word pivot. All fixed in the follow on book, "The Startup Owners Manual"

It used to be that even Democrats understood that it's generally illegal to shoot people. Having the gun makers put a disclaimer in the owner's manual “Don't shoot people with this firearm unless the circumstances conform to state law" in the past seemed unnecessary. Perhaps that's no longer so, but really, are people really that dumb? I personally don't think that's the case.

As a professional mechanic for 35 years I have seen a lot of things change in the industry. One thing that hasn’t changed it that car dealerships make their money in the shop, not the show room…we’ll get back to that.Cars have changed in a lot of ways since I started working on them in the early 80’s, the cars we saw back the were built in the 60’s an 70’s. Safety, materials workmanship, technology, oils, tires, brakes on and on…all of these thing have improved drastically. They have also gotten way more complex and expensive to repair. Nobody fixes anything any more, they replace components…I digress.I know what your owners manual says, here's what i say:Transmission fluid needs to be replaced, period. It is better than it ever was but internal parts still wear, tiny particles get suspended in the oil, and oil breaks down with heat. that will never change. The frequency that you change it can be debated but I don’t care what any owners manual says, oil has to be changed at some point.Brake fluid:With a few exceptions, it has not changed much, if at all since the 60’s, and yes it does absorb water molecules from the atmosphere, always has, still does. I live in the Pacific Northwest and we know a thing or two about moisture in the air. I have seen cars go their whole life and never have the brake fluid changed…you probably won’t die if you don’t do it GASP!I know that sounds contradictory, here’s what I do and I’ve done it thousands of times so save the nay saying… When I am doing a brake job, I open the bleeder screw while I’m working at each wheel. You have to push the piston back into the caliper and it’s not good to push fluid backwards thru some ABS modules so I let gravity do what it does. By the time I get done, replacing the pads, I have drained MOST of the fluid by gravity, you ABSOLUTY DO NOT WANT TO GET AIR IN THE SYSTEM so you do have to keep an eye on the reservoir and not let it go completely empty. When your done replacing the brakes, fill the reservoir to the brim and go to each wheel and open the bleeders one at a time until you see new fluid. BAM, fluid and brakes done! No fancy equipment, no bleeding. Paying a shop to “flush” your brake fluid as a separate service is a complete rip off, If you do it while your replacing the brakes there is virtually no extra time spent and fluid is cheap. But your shop won’t do this because it doesn’t make them money.Shops are not interested in saving you money, they are interested in taking it from you, the invention of brake fluid replacement is something that showed up in owners manuals fairly recently (10 or years ago), in my opinion it’s because mechanics aren’t taught (or paid) to think, they're taught, (and paid) to do what the book says. same with not changing ATF, fluid is cheap compared to the cost of a new tranny. Who stands to make a boat load of money by letting you tranny wear out?