April 2010
8 posts
It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control. Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.
When I first discovered the average selling prices for enterprise software products, my naïve conclusion was that this cost was driven by rocket-science innovation that mere mortals were incapable of creating, and this groundbreaking technology justified prices in the millions of dollars. But the truth is that the high prices and the poor design of the products are directly related.
What value do we create here?
