"By definition, creating innovative stuff demands doing things that haven’t been done before. So building an innovative product half way, then throwing it out and building it a second time to completion will not only take less time than building it once, but will result in a far better product, both from an engineering standpoint and from the user’s perspective."

Plan to Throw One Away. A story about Ruby.
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https://mralancooper.medium.com/plan-to-throw-one-away-df05fde7bf63

Plan to Throw One Away - Alan Cooper - Medium

Back in the day, the mentality was the more code you could ship the more money you could make. But one of the most important new lessons of the digital era was that code could be a liability as much…

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