A Vetran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount of “up to and including my life.”
That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Convinced that Mondays were created by the same bastard who invented the last day of vacation, the last call and the snooze button.
The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it. This changes the economics of feature additions. If you can’t destroy what you build, each addition holds the threat of clutter. Empty pixels and free space where a new feature could be added are the most valuable real estate on your app. Don’t be quick to sell it, because you can never get it back.
Ryan Singer, Features are a one-way street
This was posted on SvN almost a year ago, but I think it really speaks to the heart of the current discontent on Twitter.
(via davidkaneda)
