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Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it. Article: People s
by escapeteam 7mo ago
Why is progress always assumed to be about adding more stuff? Sometimes, taking something away would be best, but humans tend to overlook it.
Article: People systematically overlook subtractive changes - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03380-y
- falcor84 7mo agoI for one hate it when product managers update systems to make them simpler and remove features/settings that I depend on.
- hsbauauvhabzb 7mo agoExactly, this is why I want notepad to be as simple as possible. I rely on it. The W11 notepad is frustrating and useless if all I want to do is open a file. I wish they would fix notepad by pushing whatever version was shipped in w10 as the default.
- hirako2000 7mo agoWe are hard wired to perceive addition as value.
- alansaber 7mo ago> deploy loads of new features > bin them into few, better features > remove all the features > repeat