simplicity

Keep the focus on minimal product. More on this later, but your job as product manager is not to define the ultimate product, it’s to define the smallest possible product that will meet your goals

Smaller and simpler software with one core feature always makes me more focused. Every time I want to write something I open a simple text editor instead of something more complex like Notion or Google Docs. Feature bloat creates so much distraction and friction for me, to the point where I just sit and stare at the screen instead of actually doing

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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. -Dee Hock

Here's what I've come to see as the guiding light of my life: simple ideas, explained very clearly. You only really need, like, one or two compelling ideas that you deeply understand. And then you have to be able to make other people understand them, which is the hard part. You have to distill, and in a way distillation is harder than creation.... See more