samedi 22 février 2003

Dilemma, Not Disease Yesterday I described how innovation in a product can present a challenge for 9x, the more-mainstream audience. I described this as the inventor's disease. I thought about it during a long car ride yesterday, and concluded that "disease" is both inaccurate and unfair. It doesn't do justice to the trade-offs. How much innovation is good, and how much is bad? Not easy to decide. I stand by the main point, though. The 1x crowd, the innovators and early adopters, will encourage maximum innovation. If one cool "new new" thing is good, then two is great and ten is awesome. In my view, Joe Professional Programmer and the 9x crowd think different. One is good, two is occassionally great, and ten is downright frightening. The dilemma is to make something interesting while remembering their mindset: "I've never seen this acronym before and I'll never see it again." Gotta keep the number of new-to-them things to a minimum. 10:29:21 AM   comment []