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# [Weekly Retro] Remove friction
- URL: https://www.cesarrg.com/weekly-retro-remove-friction/
- Published: 2025-05-03T16:08:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-03T16:08:06.000Z
- Author: César Rodríguez
- Tags: Weekly Retro, Innovation, Design

#244 - May.2025

***Weekly Retro** **is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.*

Hi there! 

💡 Here is a quick idea for the weekend:

Innovation is not always about novelty and complexity. Sometimes the greatest impact comes from **simple** solutions.

It's often more important (and more difficult!) to **remove** friction than to add new things. Great innovation frequently means cutting away what's unnecessary to reveal what truly matters.

### 🧠 Ideas from this week

This week’s ideas mixed human capabilities and technology for products development. I wrote about choosing the right prototype for learning, designing customer experiences, and embracing simplicity when AI or automation isn't necessary.

- [Should we built it?](https://www.cesarrg.com/should-we-built-it/)
- [Our humanity](https://www.cesarrg.com/our-humanity/)
- [The right prototype](https://www.cesarrg.com/the-right-prototype/)
- [A single experience](https://www.cesarrg.com/a-single-experience/)
- [Simpler solution](https://www.cesarrg.com/simpler-solutions/)

### 📊 Visuals from this week

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/2025/05/IMG_1734.jpeg)

### 👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links

Slate offers a fresh idea of what a customized car should look like: 

[SLATESLATE Auto | The Customizable EV That Works for You![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/apple-icon.png)SlateSlate![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/thumbnail/charging-garage-night-110v-outlet.jpg)](https://www.slate.auto/en?ref=cesarrg.com)

This week I visited Florence and was amazed by Da Vinci’s world of inventions: 

[da Vinci Inventions: Flying Machines, Weapons of War and Other Innovations — Leonardo Da Vinci InventionsThis page contains an index of all the Leonardo da Vinci inventions profiled on this site. These include flying inventions, war inventions and other innovations.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/10/f4/10f4a52f-1b7d-4284-b66d-0fccfd9dc5da/content/images/icon/default-favicon.ico)Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions](https://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/davinci-inventions?ref=cesarrg.com)

**🖋️ Quote of the week**

> **“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”** – Leonardo da Vinci

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