When creating a product, there’s no such thing as perfection — only tradeoffs

Why do we do all of the things we do, like building new products, attending planning meetings, creating new processes, or writing articles? Because someone (hopefully us!) thinks each of those things is objectively good. And if each thing is good, then collectively, they are all… perfect? Unfortunately, the math doesn’t work out that way. There’s no such thing as perfection. There’s just a set of tradeoffs that, for a particular purpose or observer, allows you to ignore the bad and focus on the good. As you try to reach perfection by doing more things—all in an effort to avoid any tradeoffs—you…

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