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> we are ruthless in killing experiments early that do not prove valuable. Ed Catmull of Pixar calls new ideas "ugly babies." Ugly because they're covered in
by martincmartin 7y ago
> we are ruthless in killing experiments early that do not prove valuable.
Ed Catmull of Pixar calls new ideas "ugly babies." Ugly because they're covered in warts -- aspects that are easy to change, but that doubters seize on because they destroy value. For example, the script for the first Bond film, Dr. No, had an intelligent monkey for a villain. Babies because they don't have value in their current form, they need more work and iteration before they have value.
How does slack identify technologies that don't have value now, but whose problems are superficial and fixable?
- thehm 7y agoOne example of Slack's decision making process is discussed in Jake Knapp's Sprint book. Essentially, create rapid disposable prototypes and test on real people to address specific problems.
- Mandelmus 7y ago> Babies because they don't have value in their current form, they need more work and iteration before they have value. That’s a highly disturbing and misguided framework if you ask me.
- lliamander 7y agoIt's a metaphor. Maybe Catmull is a sociopath, but more than likely he believes babies are valuable in and of themselves. The point is that a baby is a being with potential - and require outside input to reach that potential.
- anoncake 7y agoI take it you aren't a Unix person then?