Re:What I learned building 9 products in 2023
by aleph_minus_one on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:36PM
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> I would bet my entire salary you only believe this because you don't understand the constraints.
I would counter bet that:
i) I do know quite some of the constraints (though surely not all).
ii) Quite of these these constraints are self-imposed prisons that the respective company/industry created for itself because of historical or "political" reasons.
What you call "constraints" is something that I would rather call "the industry's preferred flavor". Well, I do have a different taste than the respective industry. :-)
Believe me: In the past, when I was frustrated of my job, I made use of an opportunity to present some ideas that I had to some former friend who has been working in business consulting for many years: he really told me that some my ideas could be as impactful for the respective industries as I imagine it, but they would be insanely hard to sell (and a huge part of his job is selling things to customers) because they so different.
To give an even different perspective: at my current emplyer's Christmas party, my boss' boss said that I am the kind of person who cannot be classified on an optimist-pessimist scale, since I don't behave like an optimist or pessimist, but rather like an statistical outlier in a data set. :-)
I would counter bet that:
i) I do know quite some of the constraints (though surely not all).
ii) Quite of these these constraints are self-imposed prisons that the respective company/industry created for itself because of historical or "political" reasons.
What you call "constraints" is something that I would rather call "the industry's preferred flavor". Well, I do have a different taste than the respective industry. :-)
Believe me: In the past, when I was frustrated of my job, I made use of an opportunity to present some ideas that I had to some former friend who has been working in business consulting for many years: he really told me that some my ideas could be as impactful for the respective industries as I imagine it, but they would be insanely hard to sell (and a huge part of his job is selling things to customers) because they so different.
To give an even different perspective: at my current emplyer's Christmas party, my boss' boss said that I am the kind of person who cannot be classified on an optimist-pessimist scale, since I don't behave like an optimist or pessimist, but rather like an statistical outlier in a data set. :-)