Sarah McMullin

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

In Canada, 88.5% of women aged 20-29 have zero children. 94.4% for those with college degrees. 43.2% of 30-39 year old women still have no kids. 48.6% with college degrees. 23.6% of 40-49 year olds have zero children.

One of the best reasons to talk to customers regularly is to hear their feature requests for features you already have. Yes, YOU know it exists. YOU know where it is. YOU know your product has it. YOU know how to use it. But they don't. They can't find it, haven't noticed it, don't know they can do it, didn't know they already had it. Its great because on one hand you can give them the thing they want instantly (since it's already there), and the other hand it serves as a humbling reminder that the bigger a system is, the more likely any one part of it will be missed, ignored, not used, or underutilized. That's all.

Here’s what often gets missed when people think about AI coding. The code may now be free, but the learnings of what to build (and what to build *next*) and how to build it are bottlenecked by the same set of factors as before. Martin hits on this perfectly: “Changes are the result of a business learnings.” You only get very useful business learnings once a customer has implemented the *first* thing you shipped, then you learn from their experience, and make updates. So your ultimate bottleneck on software development is no longer the rate at which you can type code (as it primarily was before), but now the rate at which customers can adopt features and generate a feedback loop for you.