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The Untapped Potential of Less
I'm very big on radically simplifying products by removing features that don't carry their own weight. But, without knowing what is being used, and how it's being used, it's a very painful process to do this when you don't know what's really going on. We don't have the data to back up our theories or decisions, so management (rightfully) balks.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Via negativa: the principle that we know what is wrong with more clarity than what is right, and that knowledge grows by subtraction. Also, it is easier to know that something is wrong than to find the fix. Actions that remove are more robust than those that add because addition may have unseen, complicated feedback loops.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
what sounds very simple actually requires a very serious breaking away of an ideology – spread loudly by Silicon Valley over the last few decades – that claims that technology is the solution to it all, that we can engineer our way out of the world’s problems, and that the world, society, and humans are nothing more than just another machine that n... See more