Neither is turning your simple dream into a food court with flat tires. A Complexity Tale in Four Courses of why scaling too soon, listening to the wrong advice, and forgetting your first customer kills more than products — it kills dreams.
A humorous cartoon-style illustration of anthropomorphized mustard containers. One is a small mustard squeeze bottle with sad eyes and a frown, another is a large bulk mustard jug looking frustrated and overwhelmed, and a commercial mustard dispenser with arms crossed and angry eyebrows. Include a few mustard packets on the side, each with different exaggerated emotional expressions (worried, annoyed, crying). All characters are colored like French’s Classic Yellow Mustard, with red and white label accents. They are standing together, each expressing frustration or sadness, as if stuck in a dysfunctional food court. Clean cartoon linework with flat colors, light shadows, and a minimalist background. Use a limited palette of yellow, black, white, and red. 16:9 landscape aspect ratio.
I laughed so hard reading this 😆especially at the ‘Relish Train Engineers’ part! Seriously, not everything needs to scale. Sometimes simplicity is the real success. 👌🏻
The mustard needs a PO.🤣
And we all know the endless list of features….
Stay with your strategy. Keep it simple. And build the dream.
Wait, does this mean you're pushing back on the ‘Optimize Condiment Dispenser’ Epic on our JIRA board? 😎
Does it add value?
Improve the taste?
Does it make the Mustard more yellow?
Let me find some more holes to poke.
There's a prompt for that:
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A humorous cartoon-style illustration of anthropomorphized mustard containers. One is a small mustard squeeze bottle with sad eyes and a frown, another is a large bulk mustard jug looking frustrated and overwhelmed, and a commercial mustard dispenser with arms crossed and angry eyebrows. Include a few mustard packets on the side, each with different exaggerated emotional expressions (worried, annoyed, crying). All characters are colored like French’s Classic Yellow Mustard, with red and white label accents. They are standing together, each expressing frustration or sadness, as if stuck in a dysfunctional food court. Clean cartoon linework with flat colors, light shadows, and a minimalist background. Use a limited palette of yellow, black, white, and red. 16:9 landscape aspect ratio.
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I laughed so hard reading this 😆especially at the ‘Relish Train Engineers’ part! Seriously, not everything needs to scale. Sometimes simplicity is the real success. 👌🏻
Thanks, but we're still going to work on the 'Mustard Dispenser Optimization' next quarter, aren't we?
Absolutely, KPIs show a 200% happiness boost with every optimized mustard squeeze!