Pressure is a good thing. Pressure does affect quality. We never have enough time to ship things. There are always improvements that we can make. Pressure is a

Pressure is a good thing. Pressure does affect quality. We never have enough time to ship things. There are always improvements that we can make. Pressure is always there. It's one of those things which expands to take up whatever space which we are given. More time (shipping less) doesn't necessarily mean better quality. There are days when I can get twice as much done just because my task list has twice as much things. Then there are days when simple things on a short task list seems to take me forever. I feel I have more time so maybe I'm more susceptible to going down rabbit holes. Or maybe I procrastinate until I have enough time that I know the task will really take. I wonder if people would really improve the quality if given the time to do so. Maybe the issue is that they don't have the tools to improve the quality in the first place. At a certain point your brain calls the task done and you aren't going to do anything more to it. Give more time to a developer writing spaghetti code and you'll probably just get more spaghetti code. To really improve, the developer would have to go through some big personal change (a steady diet of code reviews, reading good code and using other resources for improvement). Maybe it's best to improve the processes. In software we can ship something with a beta label and expect problems. Then we can iterate on the software to improve it. And is publishing less a solution to drowning in noise? That seems to be a separate problem to be solved using different tools. There will always be a growing volume and with volume comes noise.