Summer of Protocols

Pruning futures, and cutting features - a lot of designing things is letting go of possibilities of what it can be and letting it be one thing that matters most but why? Why does it hurt to let go of all the other possibilities and future ways that this could be, sometimes it feels like I’m cutting off my limbs and I’m doing this willingly, no I’m doing this because I want what kinda bs this? The good kind

Pruning futures is a good way to describe protocols - local reduction of optionality is required to enable interesting behavior elsewhere