Reality has a suprising amount of detail

http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail

Projects always take longer than planned because of the can opener effect.

The map in our heads is almost always simpler than the underlying reality.

Important to admit how little you know up front and spend more time talking to customers rather than building product. In the words of Steve Blank, “get out of the building.”

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