> It’s not that these other things don’t matter but all the “other stuff” shouldn’t take priority... Totally agree with you; I think the sentiment behind "I co

> It’s not that these other things don’t matter but all the “other stuff” shouldn’t take priority... Totally agree with you; I think the sentiment behind "I could do that in a weekend" is that shipping the core functionality can be done quickly, and iterating on the "other things" can be done after launch in many cases. Not everything has to be as robust as possible on day one. Google didn't have BigTable, MapReduce, and Borg the day the search bar went live. Shipping features is my favorite part of the job, it'd be great to have those wins as often as possible and cross other bridges when we come to them.