People who invent the future rarely want to live in it. Surprisingly, they are often eager to just sell it to the next generation at a profit while retreating to make their own home with the previous generation. Innovation-and-reaction horseshoe theory.
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Would you say this is more about seeing how the sausage is made (knowing embedded risks), or inventing a future with bumper rails for the less sophisticated while preferring to be unconstrained yourself?
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Ex: I build a website and I know it's somewhat poorly designed OR I specifically built it with a bunch of limitations that simplify for laypeople while removing ability for customization?
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Interesting, I would've guessed the other way. A better ex. might be a managed WordPress instance vs running your own VM / physical server. I think of most SaaSification as removing tasks like software configuration from end-users' responsibilities (while also limiting options)
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True! I was thinking managed configuration/etc = the "future" in the sense of opening up access more widely & freeing cycles spent on maintenance for differentiated value creation, but even people who hate managing WordPress (like me) still do it out of some kind of nerd-pride 😆
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But you're right - more innovative developments (Mars travel, robots, AI/ML, etc.), probably more sausage-making awareness

