Going up-market

Edit it according to these comments: - Make it shorter and a bit more structured. - Make sure to preserve friendly casual tone, personal touch sometimes with a bit of irony or emotion (but just a bit, no exagerations; you MUST NOT use cliche phrases) - Make sure to remember that I'm a seasoned product leader in software products, not a professional blog poster who posts for living. - Also, make sure that it sounds like a message from PRODUCT executive to other product leaders, not too business-generic. - Make it sound not too bloggish, no cliche, no questions that I set and answer myself - Make sure to avoid common sense thesis, repetitions - just the meat, just the distilled thoughts. Though, don't loose initial important notions.