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Don’t build v2 when v3 will do.

Carl Lippert

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Version 2 of anything is probably an “intermediate state”. Don’t build it. Build whats next instead.

Let’s start out with what I am defining as an intermediate state.

An intermediate state is the point between a current state and a future state. More robustly, it’s an infinite number of possible states between what exists now, and an infinite number of future possible states.

Take a loading bar for example.

The loading bar exists to let you know you are in an intermediate state.

( Or hell. I’ll let you decide. )

You are somewhere between where you are and where you wish to be.

Search bar and cat videos. Button click and delicious delivery food. Rolls you can see through your cloths and your annual recurring fitness goals. Old school opaque oligopolies and “perfect” transparent market competition.

Wouldn’t it be cool if we could leap frog from state to state and skip intermediate states?

No loading bars. No years of diet and exercise.

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