Signal v. Noise
If you want to know the truth about what you’ve built, you have to ship it.
Jason Fried • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Don’t get drawn into endless research. At some point, you have to take a leap of faith, try something, and see whether people find it useful.
Lukas Mathis • Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web
I'm often asked how I know when an idea might make a good product.
First, I never know. It's always a guess, a bet. I'm just trying to do what I can to increase the odds, to beat the house.
But more specifically, it's always a feeling. It's never a number. It's never a quantity… Show more
Faizel Mohidin added
Make things. Operating in a space with a lot of uncertainty is a very different experience to learning something.
patrickcollison.com • Advice · Patrick Collison
Keely Adler added
Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different ... See more
Jasmine Sun • exit interview
sari and added
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
Unless you’ve actually done the work, you’re in no position to encode it as a best practice.
Jason Fried • It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Planning is guessing