Dan Martell - June 20, 2024


Simple scales complex fails


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Length

39 seconds

Words per minute

216.33888

Word count

143

Sentence count

7


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In this episode, I talk about why we always default towards simple and simple, and why complex is a bad thing. Anybody who's been building companies for a while knows that simple scales, complex fails. As soon as you add a link to a page that you think is going to be valuable, you immediately start with negative value. You have added complexity, cognitive overload to the visual complexity of the screen. So that's why in the world of product development, we're always asking ourselves, what can we take out? Because if we leave it in there, it's complexity. It's something we have to maintain. We have to have a help article for it. It needs to be trained about it over time. If you don't prune, you just end up with a really big

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00:00:00.000 Anybody who's been building companies for a while,
00:00:01.960 the reason why they always default towards simple and simple and simple
00:00:05.960 is because they've learned that simple scales, complex fails.
00:00:08.640 As soon as you add a link to a page that you think is going to be valuable,
00:00:12.600 you immediately start with negative value.
00:00:14.600 You have added complexity, cognitive overload to the visual complexity of the screen.
00:00:20.100 So that's why in the world of product development,
00:00:22.360 we're always asking ourselves, what can we take out?
00:00:24.820 Because if we leave it in there, it's complexity.
00:00:26.900 It's something we have to maintain.
00:00:28.280 We have to have a help article for it.
00:00:29.740 somebody on the support team needs to be trained about it over time if you don't prune you just
00:00:34.300 end up with this really big complicated ball of complexity and that does not scale