"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
Exceptional synthesis of why aesthetic offense becomes founding fuel. The observation that "this is ugly" precedes market analysis really nails something most startup advice misses entirely. What's counterintuitive is that founders optimizing for beauty actually end up with more anti-fragile systems, not less, becuase aesthetic coherence naturally resists the feature-bloat and exception-creep that kills most products at scale. The part about founders having unique incentives to insist on good taste while managers and investors literaly can't afford to care hits hard.
Exceptional synthesis of why aesthetic offense becomes founding fuel. The observation that "this is ugly" precedes market analysis really nails something most startup advice misses entirely. What's counterintuitive is that founders optimizing for beauty actually end up with more anti-fragile systems, not less, becuase aesthetic coherence naturally resists the feature-bloat and exception-creep that kills most products at scale. The part about founders having unique incentives to insist on good taste while managers and investors literaly can't afford to care hits hard.
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