Perfection

Get it out after it’s all perfect or keep shipping and improving?

I’ve seen people who don’t ship their work till they are completely satisfied. Till the presentations have the right colour, exact pictures and numbers to the correct decimal. Till the render has no presence of the minutest error. Till the podcast has no presence of a slur.

On the contrary, there are a bunch of others who keep shipping and improving with every consecutive batch of work. While they pay enough attention to the core story, they are not obsessive about delivering error-free work. (Credit-Seth Godin).

I personally am a proponent of the latter approach. While perfection should be the long-term goal, it shouldn’t stop you from saying your story in time. If your story is real and authentic, go ahead and say it. Don’t let grammar slow you down.

This topic reminds me of what Paul Kalanithi says, in his book ‘When breath becomes air’- ‘‘You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”