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🦄 What’s the most expensive part of design?

My best work happens when I stick to this narrative: “I know what works. I’m going to ship exactly what’s needed. You’ll get a killer result, and any feedback or tweaks will just make it all worse.”
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Victor Vorontsov
January 27, 2026

It’s talking.

The meetings, the over-explaining, the feedback loops. Over and over again

It adds almost zero value to the output. Sometimes it just ruins it.

My best work happens when I stick to this narrative: “I know what works. I’m going to ship exactly what’s needed. You’ll get a killer result, and any feedback or tweaks will just make it all worse.”

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