Reverse Benchmarking
Jun. 16th, 2025 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis video describes an instance of reverse benchmarking in restaurants. Instead of trying to mimic what other people do well, identify what they do badly and do that well.
I routinely use this in my writing. I look for things that other people do badly or not at all, then I write those things. Also I never have the patience to wait around for 20 years while other folks work through the whole identity literature process. New trait? Trait-having hero! Done. This is how I wind up with things like An Army of One (neurodiverse characters making their own culture), The Bear Tunnels (Native American time travelers), The Moon Door (women with disabilities who become werewolves), The Ocracies (everything but monarchy), The Origami Mage and Path of the Paladins (ace heras), P.I.E. (a hera who doesn't fall for a jerk), Polychrome Heroics (superpowers that involve more than crime and crimefighting), and The Steamsmith (a black, genderqueer, British, steampunk engineer).
Go ahead, throw me prompts for things that nobody is doing well, or doing at all, in any relevant prompt call. We can fill that gap together.
I routinely use this in my writing. I look for things that other people do badly or not at all, then I write those things. Also I never have the patience to wait around for 20 years while other folks work through the whole identity literature process. New trait? Trait-having hero! Done. This is how I wind up with things like An Army of One (neurodiverse characters making their own culture), The Bear Tunnels (Native American time travelers), The Moon Door (women with disabilities who become werewolves), The Ocracies (everything but monarchy), The Origami Mage and Path of the Paladins (ace heras), P.I.E. (a hera who doesn't fall for a jerk), Polychrome Heroics (superpowers that involve more than crime and crimefighting), and The Steamsmith (a black, genderqueer, British, steampunk engineer).
Go ahead, throw me prompts for things that nobody is doing well, or doing at all, in any relevant prompt call. We can fill that gap together.
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