[johnnyanmac]

Sure, and the best optimization of any bottleneck is to cut the feature, doing nothing is O(1) after all.

As you can imagine, it's a solution that kills the product (or the company) in the long term.

[ctrw]

A company is like a rose bush, keeping it civilised means constant aggressive prunning.

[Sharlin]

Surely the bush itself cannot be responsible for its own pruning, that would be a conflict of interest. Anyway, it's always best to start pruning at the top.

[DonHopkins]

What if the top's singing "Feed Me, Seymour!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHrzZUascE

[ctrw]

At the tips actually.