https://www.1101.com/iwata/2007-08-31.html

When creating something, there is always the problem of “if one side stands up, the other side cannot stand up. Improving just one thing will not move the whole thing forward.

Sometimes, when you do one thing, it improves this, that, and even solves unexpected problems. Shigeru Miyamoto] is always thinking about “one thing” like that, “Is there any, is there not?

When we trace back to the root of the problem, we find that problems that appear to be symptoms of many different problems are in fact connected at the root, and when we change one of them, other areas that did not appear to be connected are affected, and various problems disappear together.

  • [Priorities are determined by consistency.

Tasks are interrelated

(Github Issues)relationship between multiple issues at different times. If you write information in link notation, such as “This is similar to that one, so maybe we can solve this together,” a list of related pages will be generated. I use Scrapbox as a support tool to find “good ideas” to solve multiple problems at once.


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