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When Being Good Is Bad
- Red_Tarsius 12y agoThis cautionary tale rings painfully true to me. I wonder when the perfection fallacy started infecting people's minds. Imo 500 years ago any artisan or common man would have laughed at the idea of achieving results by obsessing over theory. Learning by doing and practice was the obvious way.
- jsonmez 12y agoYet, it's still something I struggle with every day. ;)
- marcosdumay 12y agoYeah, by all means, ship. But be careful, because if there is a wall right in front of you, and you decide to ignore it, because "ship!", you'll hit it anyway, and it won't hurt any less. Viability estimation does not stop being impotant because people in HN are telling you to ship... But it's all meaningless if you don't ship.
- jsonmez 12y agoI agree, it's a careful balance. You have to know what the risks are involved. For example, I just started shipping YouTube videos, because, who cares. So what if people think I am stupid or don't like them. I'm learning and no harm done. But before you deploy that code that goes in the Mars rover, you might want to be a little more... sure.