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Products like reddit are complete. They do everything they need to do and there’s very little you can really add.

That’s a big problem when you have thousands of employees. It’s like youtube or google. What can you really do with all these people?

A rational person would say fire them. But firing people feels wrong because growth is good and big is good. So the only solution is to make a project for them to work on.

The natural project for them is a UI change because it won’t break the product and it caters for their lack of ability. So that’s why finished products like reddit and youtube have a new worse UI every year for seemingly no reason.




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