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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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🏁 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…