Why does Railway enforce a strict rule of saying no to ninety percent of ideas and opportunities?

Startups rarely die from starvation; they die from indigestion. Opportunity cost is lethal. Teams constantly want to attend conferences, enter tangential markets, or build features requested by edge cases. We intentionally say no repeatedly until the necessity of an initiative becomes inevitable and undeniable. When you eliminate peripheral distractions, the few projects you actually greenlight receive full organizational velocity and resources.