TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS

THE BEAUTY OF CONSTRAINTS

theengineeringmanager.substack.com4 min read

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Give your time unlimited time and resources and watch them build nothing useful. An engineering leader kept seeing projects die not from bad planning but from too much freedom - teams would list requirements, estimate timelines, then stumble along optimizing features that shouldn't exist. The counterintuitive fix is deliberately limiting scope, resources, and time.