Don't Serve Burnt Pizza A Fragment by Jiaona Zhang review.firstround.com Say you’re trying to test whether people like pizza. If you serve them burnt pizza, you’re not getting feedback on whether they like pizza. You only know that they don’t like burnt pizza. Similarly, when you’re only relying on the MVP, the fastest and cheapest functional prototype, you risk not actually testing your product, but rather a poor or flawed version of it. Minimum Awesome Product productsux
No reason for being "A lot of what I had been doing in those large gestural paintings seemed to me afterwards as being not very controlled, in the sense that a lot of stuff that was going on in them had no reason for being there. There were just too many things that were accidental, too much incidental, too many contradictions." Lawrence Wechler & Robert Irwin, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees Controlled!