From my experience, this happens all too often: Companies, projects, products, software, strategies, everything gets cluttered with stuff that isn’t adding value. That stuff also inflicts pain, if not directly then by adding complexity. And once added, the stuff tends to stay for good because almost nobody thinks to or dares to remove it.

I absolutely love Greg’s take here. I’ve seen this all too often, and have been guilty of it myself on many occasions. Product teams are focused on adding, tweaking, modifying, expanding.

Rarely do we think to remove. What a great reminder and, funny enough, the use case of a calculator is something I’ve designed before. 

Via Greg Kogan