Something that consistently enraged me when I worked at Google... being told "you are not the target user" or "we're building for the 90% use case" when I ran into some frustrating limitation of a product.
Sure, you can't always cover every edge case, but at "Google scale" 10% is a *lot* of people you're leaving hanging.
Brian Swetland /
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2024-05-14 19:41:07
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