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by FeeJai 2058 days ago
> That was a complete UI overhaul which is different than FB and their hundreds of mini-changes but the idea is similar.

The problem with facebook's approach is that you can get stuck in local optima and it might be hard to break out. That is why Facebook has done some big changes in the past as well, not just incremental improvements
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rjyoungling 2058 days ago
Yeah, I think that's a fair point. It's probably a good idea to introduce a little chaos into the order, and try things that don't make sense.

Difficult to do though in huge companies. Which is why most disruptive innovation ends up being acquired by those companies rather than created by them.

On way to address that issue seems to be to allow a separate arm to essentially act as a startup, preferably far away from the main company.

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