Premature scaling can stunt system iteration

This is a phrase I've lifted entirely from Andy Matuschak's notes which I've kept verbatim as it's a nice, punchy way of tying together various concepts I see as mistakes and anti-patterns in product and sofware development.

I see this as a summary various things that paint you into corners if you do not following them (or at least understand them):

• YAGNI
• DevOps as a special case of leveraging feedback loops