This has been a real challenge in the early startup setting where everything is built to a prototypical standard with the belief that you’re basically buying ti

This has been a real challenge in the early startup setting where everything is built to a prototypical standard with the belief that you’re basically buying time until runway is no longer a problem. And whatever truth there is in that, it’s all out of balance and lacks pragmatism. Sometimes the pragmatic choice isn’t to keep slapping shit together, it’s to step back and see what the big picture is. Even if you don’t have PMF yet, you need to design for something on the off chance it succeeds or you need to pivot. And it’s not even a pure tech issue, it can be as simple as thinking how a team of engineers could contribute, how you could onboard someone new and have them up and running quickly, what happens if you fire someone who kept everything in their head…