On the Practice of Shipping Imperfect Work
The Perfect Version Is Always in the Future I’ve been thinking about why things don’t get built. Not why they fail — why they never start. The reason is always the same: someone decided to wait until they could do it properly. Until the conditions were right. Until the idea was fully formed. Until they were sure it would be good. The problem is that “good enough to publish” and “perfect” are not the same destination. Perfect is a direction. Good enough to publish is a place. ...