The really interesting takeaway from this article for me was that product executives make many decisions based on simple intuition, industry experience, and &quot;I&#x27;ve heard it worked over there.&quot;<p>There are numerous mentions of failed product roll-outs(News Feed as a failure at first, Paper, etc.) But the key quote is here, when they talk about the meeting: &quot;Cox agrees. &#x27;My intuition, which we could prove wrong, is people just want more stuff.&#x27;<p>I&#x27;m sure that Facebook uses data to back up some of its assertions; after all, they did mine comments to come up with the most common reactions. But how many people&#x27;s entire internet experience (i.e. consumption of news through the News Feed) is impacted just by some senior guy in a room going, &quot;This sounds right to me,&quot; and everyone scrambling to work on what he proposes?