🧠🔭 Experience and Vision

In the realm of product development, there are two powerful forces -- experience and vision.

Experience (the past) is a guide -- a help to avoid serious blunders and mistakes. Experience can help us avoid dead-end tangents. Experience gives us a gut feel that is critical at times. Experience helps us be more efficient if we can make fewer mistakes.

Vision (the future) is where we are going. It is seeing things that have not been done before. It is exploring new combinations of technology to build compelling products. It is adopting new technology, including tools, software, components, and workflows. It is about understanding the needs of your customers.

Without experience, we are on the path to collapse.

Without vision, we are on the path to obscurity.