Signal v. Noise
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
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David Perellx.comAn idea is a feeling that something great lurks beneath the surface. It's a direction more than a roadmap. The process of taking a small, talented team from nothing to an extraordinary product involves millions of small decisions. It will require heaps of healthy conflict and many sleepless nights. We so badly want to believe our initial ideas are
... See moreWith certain projects, we might pull up specific data or metrics to see if the data gives us any more insights, but it’s not the way we make decisions. We don’t do A/B tests. We validate ideas and assumptions that are driven by taste and opinions, rather than the other way around where tests drive decisions. There is no specific engagement or other... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Linear Builds Product
Put through that process, reality usually hits like a truck. Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor... See more