One of my most important lessons from years of working on WhatsApp is that simplicity isn’t just a design choice — it’s a competitive advantage.
Love your use of the analogy of a knife! Simple and effective, thanks for sharing this.
Such a simple yet powerful lesson!
I am living this every day right now. Thank you for writing this so I can share this with my team.
You have a great point! Cutting down the product strategy to the bare minimum also helps communicating it to your team and getting there consensus.
Amazing!! I love the clarity of the message on such a multi-disciplinary topic. "It's not prioritization until it hurts."
Simplifying your product strategy is not the same as having a strategy of a simple single purpose product. Both are admirable much of the time but you are describing the latter, not the former, here.
Love your use of the analogy of a knife! Simple and effective, thanks for sharing this.
Such a simple yet powerful lesson!
I am living this every day right now. Thank you for writing this so I can share this with my team.
You have a great point! Cutting down the product strategy to the bare minimum also helps communicating it to your team and getting there consensus.
Amazing!! I love the clarity of the message on such a multi-disciplinary topic. "It's not prioritization until it hurts."
Simplifying your product strategy is not the same as having a strategy of a simple single purpose product. Both are admirable much of the time but you are describing the latter, not the former, here.