Don't Buy Something Unless You've Wanted it Three Times -- Product Design -- Medium
>"I think the the biggest mistake people make is latching onto the first idea that comes to them and trying to do that. It really comes to a thing that my folks taught me about money. Don't buy something unless you've wanted it three times. Similarly, don't throw in a feature when you first think of it. Think if there's a way to generalize it, think if it should be generalized. Sometimes you can generalize things too much. I think like the things in Scheme were generalized too much. There is a level of abstraction beyond which people don't want to go. Take a good look at what you want to do, and try to come up with the long-term lazy way, not the short-term lazy way." - [Larry Wall](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall) [Don't Buy Something Unless You've Wanted it Three Times -- Product Design -- Medium](https://medium.com/product-design/87c254033e2c)