“However, all I can rely on here for evidence is a recurrent pattern of events – **it is surprisingly common for significant innovations to emerge from the removal of features rather than the addition**. [[Google]] is, to put it bluntly, [[Yahoo]] without all the extraneous crap cluttering up the search page, while [[Yahoo]] was, in its day, [[AOL]] without in-built Internet access. In each case, **the more successful competitor achieved their dominance by removing something the competitor offered rather than adding to it**.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[essentialism]] , [[innovation]] , [[product-management]] , [[market-research]] , [[psycho-logic]] , [[alchemy]] **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]