Dax Raad

A few weeks later, I realized, oh, they were actually correct about it and I was wrong.

So it's really exciting to see our team be able to start to do that kind of thing.

So I think fundamentally, it's a good idea.

There's something that makes sense there.

I think with good ideas, they're very simple.

so everyone kind of repeats the idea but good ideas are simple very very difficult to actually live so it's very difficult to actually have good taste and it's like a lifelong yeah one it can be learned uh it's like a lifelong thing that you're gonna work on forever i think the root issue is a lot of people will say that the whole taste thing but do you actually believe it like do you actually believe that your product has to be good

There's so much out there now that's like, the code doesn't have to be good.

The product doesn't have to be good.

Nothing has to be good.

It's just this other thing.

You can still be successful.

And they point to companies that have crappy products, that have crappy engineering, but still make a lot of money, right?

So there's like a thing in the air about maybe all that stuff doesn't matter.

The moment that gets in your head,

like nothing like you're not gonna have you're not you're just not gonna ship good products it's fundamental you don't believe in it and i feel like the number of people that like vocally believe that craft is really important making an irrationally good product is still something that you're gonna do uh because most great products they could probably be like 50 less good and have no material impact on it but it shows up in other ways that are really hard to directly draw the line it's

If you start to be lazy in one place, you start to become lazy everywhere.

It's like an infection.

So my thing with the whole taste thing is like, yeah, you're saying taste matters, but do you really believe it?

It's like a very, very high bar to be someone that says, I really care about good products.

For me personally, I care a lot about it and I am nowhere near achieving my own bar.