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Doing the thing is doing the thing
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#13This is very similar to [1] (as discussed here [2]). It is a good message though, which is why I remember the earlier post at all. 1. https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-... 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939431
The discussion is going to be so similar, this really ought to be marked as a [dupe].
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#14"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights!"
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#15I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop.
At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 months on architecture docs before writing code. We shipped. They pivoted three times and eventually disbanded.
Planning has diminishing returns. The first 20% of planning catches 80% of the problems. Everything after that is usually anxiety dressed up as rigor.
The article's right about one thing: doing it badly still counts. Most of what I know came from shipping something embarrassing, then fixing it.
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#16"Failing while doing the thing is doing the thing."
I needed this today. Currently questioning my career choices, as I hit my first wall where people are involved. Gave me quite the headache.
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#17"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights!"
"Ain't nuttin but a peanut"
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#18As a person with ADHD, I feel personally attacked.
sometimes i find that being okay with not doing the thing is exactly the thing i need to do to be okay with getting around to doing the thing
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#19I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop. At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 months on architecture docs before writing code. We shipped. They pivoted three times and eventually disbanded. Planning has diminishing returns. The first 20% of planning catches 80% of the problems. Everything after that is usually anxiety d…
I think you may have slightly misunderstood the article.
"Preparation" isn't mentioned explicitly, but by my reading it would come firmly under "is not doing the thing".
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#20I used to think this. Then I noticed how often "preparation" became its own infinite loop. At work we built something from a 2-page spec in 4 months. The competing team spent 8 months on architecture docs before writing code. We shipped. They pivoted three times and eventually disbanded. Planning has diminishing returns. The first 20% of planning catches 80% of the problems. Everything after that is usually anxiety d…
Is it always like that? I worked in teams where we had some planning beforehand (months, like in your example). We shipped just fine and the product started to bring money. I guess it depends, as usual.