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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 22 days ago
> make the users fall into a pit of success

I don't have anything else to add but I thought this was a wonderfully evocative phrase.

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Here's some additional context on the phrase, for today's lucky ten thousand[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Good read, and I think a sort of living mindset, or “process, not product”, though seems to be follow-on/reaction to Perl’s TMTOWTDI (Tim Toadie)[0], and Python’s response(“There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it”)[1].

[0] https://perl.fandom.com/wiki/TIMTOWTDI

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_of_Python#Principles