In bureaucratic organizations, internal resistance prevents you from moving from step 2 to step 3.
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So consistently in fact that this would make a good test of whether an organization is too bureaucratic: Can anything ever get simpler?
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How I evaluate startups.
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what is something you cut away?
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Caring about the idea.
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From Heinelein, via SJ: 1. Naive simplicity 2. Sophisticated complexity 3. Sophisticated simplicity http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/04/sophisticated-simplicity.html …
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Thesis Antithesis Synthesis Hegel
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Hegelian dialectic is binary search.
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I often see #1 and #2 reversed
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I've read the stages of development (and developers) as: 1. Simple and wrong. 2. Complicated and right/working. 3. Simple and right.
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@oliveremberton 4. Add features over time to make too complicatedThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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“Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove” https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exupéry …
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a simple but useful and also clear philosophy
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Only small/young startups have #1. The rest goes straight to #2. Complexity of the design is a function of the complexity of the org.
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That's very consistently been my experience over the last 10 years
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it works in the other direction too!
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4. After a while: Too boring.
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When we design, we need make it functional in right way.
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@TheDocSmitty Or just get it right in step 1.pic.twitter.com/7G9knU6m0u
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