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I love the "ship it" mantra. Great idea to keep focus. One thing you mention though resonates. You mention perfection. What is it they say? Perfect is the enem

I love the "ship it" mantra. Great idea to keep focus. One thing you mention though resonates. You mention perfection. What is it they say? Perfect is the enemy of the good? I really dislike the work of the dilettante or amateur, my ideals are set pretty high and I see myself failing to meet my own exacting standards and this cripples me productively. Also I am a very indecisive person, plagued with doubt. This is great in that I make up my own mind about a lot of things and I don't fall prey to herd-think but it again is a bit of a productivity killer as I flit from technology to technology and methodology to methodology. For instance I've gone from DOS/Windows to Linux fanboy to Mac owner and from C and C++ to the LAMP stack to Ruby on Rails and from nothing to SVN to Git. It's exciting but tiring and their isn't a project out there that I can call my own and there's a directory full of half-baked ideas and scraps of code in ~/Code

8ren 16y ago
"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work" - then move on to the next thing. This is going to be painful for you to not stay to "perfect" it (it will take some courage) but bear in mind the following: It's surprising how often the extra bits you were worried about turn out to not actually occur, once you've learnt more from the initial version, you've understood it better and therefore designed a better approach. The first version is to understand the problem. The next version (a rewrite) is to understand the solution. Call them "exploratory drafts" if you like.