I was reading about a 45 year old who is gonna try for the 2012 Olympics Swim Team, when I read this bit:

“What do race-car drivers do when they want to go faster?” Cooley asks. “They don’t spend more hours driving around the track. They increase the biomechanics of the car.”

And I immediately thought about our apps. It might have been a long shot association, but it was worth thinking through…

If you want to improve your app, you don’t spend hours and hours using the app, hoping to just get better at navigating it. You look at the fundamental backend things you can do that will make your app more useful and efficient. Check its rate; can you up the speed of your app? Check its heartbeat: can you improve the way it makes API calls? Check its stomach; can you add storage somewhere? Check its digestion; how can you improve the export?

Boosting the biomechanics of a car will make it go faster. Boosting the internal forces of your app will get you the same results…