What can we remove?

Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more process, more code, more features, more stuff. [...] Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse.

A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.