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My process: Make a thing. Change it. Now I have two things. One of these two things is better, both in total and in any particular detail. I try to notice these differences and amplify the good parts. Then I go back, make another thing, and repeat the process.

I’m not shy about making changes either. Even when I like a piece of work, I try to change it and improve it. As the work gets better, improvements are more difficult to find. Once I like something and the efforts to improve start to flag, I move on.

As part of this process I throw away a lot of work. I accept that.

Ken Kocienda (original thread)

Afternoon In The Mountains

I hate saying this… but is it true that for software to be really commercially successful, there’s some fundamental requirement of shittness?

Des Traynor

This quote lead me to an interesting article on the Complexity Convection by Nathan Baschez

The Winchester vs Pinelands culture wars continue with @waynethebrain

When your mate drops some culture on you, but you’re from South Africa.

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Some TIL for you on a Thursday.

Former Intel Engineer Explains Why Apple Switched to ARM | Jun, 2020 :

Basically our buddies at Apple became the number one filer of problems in the architecture. And that went really, really bad. When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you’re not leading into the right place.”

Sad Products.

This tweet summarizes a complex topic that I’ve been grappling with over the course of the last few years.

How does a leader walk the tight-rope of building a product that is both qualitatively and quantitatively successful?

I’m not entirely sure if there are many leaders for whom both carry equal weight.

In the startups I’ve worked in and those I’ve observed, it becomes clear that in any cofounder mix some are driven by the mission & vision and others by the money & metrics.

All the above are equally important.

Yet so much of the machinery we use to decide whether a product is successful elevates what can be measured and easily parsed at the expense of that which can only be understood through intuition, feeling and experiencing the products.

#wip I’ll build on this thinking and update over the course of the next few weeks