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🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In this podcast, I talk about an R&D expression, "The juice isn't worth the squeeze."
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0:00.0 | What that means? |
0:02.5 | It's time method. |
0:03.2 | Drive to work. |
0:05.0 | Okay. |
0:05.8 | So today is inspired by an expression in R&D that I'm going to talk about and explain. |
0:12.7 | So the expression is the juice isn't worth the squeeze. |
0:17.3 | So what does that mean exactly? |
0:19.4 | Well, what it means is there are things that we realize we are able to do, |
0:25.2 | but what it would take to do it isn't worth the thing we are making. |
0:31.3 | That sometimes we make something, and the thing we make has merit is interesting, |
0:37.3 | but the things that we would have to do to make it |
0:41.0 | happen isn't worth the energy and effort for the reward of what we would get. And so that's what |
0:48.3 | we're talking about today. We're talking about how the juice isn't worth the squeeze. So what exactly |
0:53.3 | do we do? We're like, hey, that's not worth making. |
0:57.2 | And the idea here is the core concept of today's podcast is that whenever we make something, |
1:05.2 | there is work that goes into making it. |
1:07.1 | And that just because something is doable doesn't mean it should be done. |
1:13.1 | Doesn't mean it's worth doing. |
1:14.9 | That a lot of the job of design is figuring out, it's sort of weighing the pros and cons of |
1:21.1 | what will this add and what will it take, what will it require. |
1:25.1 | And there are just things that require more than they're worth. |
1:30.7 | And this is a, this concept is a tricky concept because we have to gauge, okay, how |
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