New Talk: Making Hard Things Easy
A better idea: Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort.
Jason Fried • Rework
Avoid Common Anti-Patterns
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
make easy things easy, hard things possible
Pick Up What They Put Down
swyx.io
My whole life was basically trying to optimize things. You don't just save parts, but every time you save parts you save on complexity and reliability, the amount of time it takes to understand something. And how good you can build it without errors and bugs and flaws.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
More importantly, I learned that writing a web application is all about making tradeoffs