The Feedback Tradeoff
There are many traps, both logical and emotional, that can get in the way. Steve Jobs’s philosophy is one school of thought that can be misapplied ––“Some people say give the customers what they want, but that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.”
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Product and feedback the more and the better. And everyone has an opinion and they are valid. the job is to prioritise and balance - the synthesis. There will be contradictions. be absolutely clear about who is the audience. What is the "job" this feature fulfills for this person. What
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"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."
Tight feedback loops are excellent tools for optimizing efficiency (eg, of understood production processes, operations, or distribution funnels). But if we’re dogmatic in adhering to a fixed feedback loop periodicity, we preclude ourselves from undertaking larger scale projects (the space program that reached the moon does not get fu
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