Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
"You should build this feature" "You should make this small quality of life improvement" "You raised a bunch of money why can't you also X" Focus. Not claiming to be world-class at it. Varun is much better at focus than I am—I get distracted by shiny new things all the time. But ultimately you only have a fixed number of "shots on goal" before you lose momentum (and in other cases, funding). Have to constantly be asking yourself is this the highest priority thing we can work on? And if everything is high priority, then you're not focused. Good clip below on what world-class looks like here (note that Jony doesn't think he is good at it).
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tomato
@tomatoxyz
When it comes to a social media platform though users will want to at least feel the feedback they're providing is being catalogued or possibly slated as a possibility of being worked on in the future (i.e. some form of ownership) Without that projects can risk alienating key parts of their userbase and eventually get attrition/bifurcation - particularly if the project development ends up going -against- what people are asking for. Most of that is just PR/communications though and acknowledging concerns and the like and also making people a part of the conversation in the first place. And generally speaking "fog of war" means what the development team feels may be the highest priority thing isn't necessarily what the (most valuable) users are concerned with.
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