Deniss Alimovs

Sometimes the the best approach is not to write code or to get rid of useless code.

The purpose of visualisation is insight, not pictures.

Core beliefs are inflexible rigid and incredibly sensitive to being challenged.

One of the great things about designing digital products is that they are never finished.

Hardware product validation and iteration cycles are much longer than software ones.

Try to be a drug for your customer instead of being a vitamin.

It is always better to identify and solve one problem very well instead of solving n problems in a so-so way.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority.

Roadmaps that contain problems to solve are better than roadmaps with lists of features to build.

If you started to design a house using doorknobs, roof beams and insulation, you wouldn’t get very far.

Feature bloat happens when the motivating idea for a product isn’t focused enough.

Thinking about your product’s position can set you on the right path for gaining more clarity down the road.

New feature requests come in every day, and if you can’t say “no”, who knows where on the map you’ll land without a clear point of view.

Without a clear point of view on what makes you different, it’s easy to wander. Especially, in the software industry.

Look at hacks and workarounds your customers have come up with and try to understand the why behind the how.

Plans are just guesses you write down. Strategic plan? Call it what it really is: strategic guess.

AI startups right now are mostly hammers looking for nails.

A startup's advantage, primarily, is focus.

Why doesn’t matter to the customer experience. It’s either great or it’s not — the why behind the scenes doesn’t matter.

Every block of stone has a sculpture in it and it is the job of the sculptor to find it.