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Two product principles often forgotten

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Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Des Traynor
Word Count
675
Company Posts That Month
5
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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No
Summary

The text discusses two product principles that are often overlooked: finding your core idea first and embracing quantity to guide you to quality. The author draws an analogy with Archilochus' quote about the fox and hedgehog, which explains the difference in survival methods between these animals. According to the author, the best designers and engineers work with a single big defining idea before exploring secondary details, as they know that getting the core correct is more important than perfecting secondary features. The text also highlights the importance of iterating until something is not obviously broken, rather than relying solely on iteration to produce good results. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for freedom to be bad at something first in order to get better, and warns against picking a bad idea simply because it looks great.

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