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I've always disliked this advice because it's trite. It's often true at an individual level, yet in practice, I've never seen this work once more people are added to the equation.

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That’s funny because I have seen this advice most needed in large projects, where things drag out because people keep having new ideas that they think will make it better. The insidious part is that certainly some ideas are good, the issue is that identifying the most critical changes is never definitive until you ship and see if it works.

(Obviously this advice can easily go horribly wrong in the hands of incompetent leadership, context matters, etc)

> new ideas

Don't add them to current development; add them to future development.

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