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🚣 Rowing the race you need at the end
Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat follows the University of Washington eight-oar crew that won gold in Berlin in 1936. The part that stays with me is how they rowed the middle of a race. Washington was a come-from-behind crew. Othe…
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⏳ The long-term compression timeline
Below are several timelines illustrating long-term compression comparing a product development timeline: 20 years ago Today Today with Platform Thinking The big effect of long-term compression is that negative consequences can hit much ea…
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🗜️ Long-term compression
One reality of developing products with modern technology is the compression of the short and long-term. Today, the consequences of actions come back on the timeframe of months instead of years, as it might have been ten or twenty years ago…
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⏳ The "long-term" may be closer than you think...
A common objection to “Platform Thinking” (proactively build your platform from the start) is: there isn’t time right now; this can be done after the 1.0 release when there is ample time and resources. The “long-term” can be defined as when…
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📈 What do we mean by scaling?
This can mean many things: More units sold More customers served More people doing the work More features More innovation More models produced More model options More quality We could go on, but basically we mean more of something over ti…
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🏁 The long game
Platforms are long games. If you are building a one-off consumer product that will not be maintained, improved, or ever change, then you probably don’t need a platform. However, if you are building an long-lived industrial product that will…