| Thanks for the links—Brooks and Zawinski are exactly the guard-rails we keep taped to the monitor. No Silver Bullet: We’re not chasing a “one tool to rule them all.” The essential complexity—humans aligning on what to do can’t be deleted; we’re only trying to strip away the accidental part (manual copy-pasting). Zawinski’s Law: Instead of cramming every feature into one bloated app, we’re limiting scope to a single object model: A message, a task, and a doc are the same object, just rendered in different views. Chat ≠ Task Manager ≠ Wiki, but they sit on the same data layer, so hand-offs happen automatically rather than by re-typing. Anything beyond that (CRM, billing, email) stays as integrations no temptation to rebuild an Outlook clone. So the direction is “context cohesion without feature creep.” If we can kill the copy-paste tax and still keep each tool honest to its purpose, we think that’s the sweet spot. Curious where you’ve seen this approach succeed or crash and burn in real teams. |
One ring to rule them all is a fiction…
…and did not work out well for anyone anyway.