Product & Startup Builder

Reducing complexity to create products

Added on by Chris Saad.

Most people don't understand how to identify common patterns to produce opinionated products.

They see the world as endless shades and believe that the complexity is not only inevitable and necessary, but also desirable and beneficial.

It's like looking at the rainbow and having the sense that there is infinite complexity and therefore infinite colors. Simplifying the spectrum seems impossible.

Great product managers look at a rainbow, draws bounding boxes and gives each part of the gradient a name. Yellow, red, green. blue etc.

They understand that by reducing the complexity into just a few well defined conditions, people will be able to more easily refer to parts of the color spectrum and accelerate everything from casual discussions, to artistic endeavors to even developing color science.

They also understand that rationalizing the complexity is not only possible, but highly desirable. Because they know that's exactly where value is created.