Benn Stancil on benn.substack

Yeah, I don't think the mess is necessarily a sign of things going wrong. Analytics work goes through a similar process (https://benn.substack.com/p/analytics-is-a-mess), as does any sort of product design. (https://medium.com/design-leadership-notebook/the-new-double-diamond-design-process-7c8f12d7945e). In some ways, the mess is a good thing. Provided, at least, that at some point it starts to get cleaned up. The job application point is an interesting one. That one feels like the xkcd comic about standards (https://xkcd.com/927/), where anytime anyone tries to unify it, they end up fragmenting it further. (I've always felt something similar about messaging services actually, where I want to have one place to get texts, iMessages, Messenger messages, WhatsApp messages, etc, rather than having five places to remember to text people back)