> “If you cannot do great things, do small things a great number of times”.
People want to "plan" themselves into being Great. So they go into a spiral of "I'm not good enough" and don't actually complete anything. They don't produce anything, no one sees their work, so it's much harder to improve.
In practice, if we produce a lot of stuff, and pay attention, the quality will increase over time. We'll become Great according to the article...
... I'd call it "Good Enough". Producing and analyzing and getting better takes time, energy, and focus. It's not fun. Once our result is Good Enough we move on and focus on another thing we want to produce.
Source: writing a book on (Developer) Feedback Loops
I agree. I would say that there’s a class of lessons you only gain by, for instance, shipping things, by completing projects —- and many of them. If you only ever start things and maybe slog at it for a while and give up, there’s a whole host of things you’re not learning. I sometimes think that it’s better to sloppily ship many things than to perfect shipping one, or fewer thing. By doing something over and over again from start to finish, you gain valuable perspective on the whole and can understand what really matters in the larger context than you could if you just focused on one small part of a project.
> “If you cannot do great things, do small things a great number of times”.
People want to "plan" themselves into being Great. So they go into a spiral of "I'm not good enough" and don't actually complete anything. They don't produce anything, no one sees their work, so it's much harder to improve.
In practice, if we produce a lot of stuff, and pay attention, the quality will increase over time. We'll become Great according to the article...
... I'd call it "Good Enough". Producing and analyzing and getting better takes time, energy, and focus. It's not fun. Once our result is Good Enough we move on and focus on another thing we want to produce.
Source: writing a book on (Developer) Feedback Loops