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Discussion on: Are you working on the most important thing?

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Juan De los santos

Yep, a friend once told me that "we have to develop things for people (our target people), and not for us at all ..." as developers we sometimes forget what our target market is or what they really want; That usually happens more when we work in a personal project.

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Blaine Osepchuk

Good point, Juan.

If you'll allow me to paraphrase from the book Code Simplicity (by Max Kanat-Alexander): "The purpose of software is to help people.