https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
3. Bias towards action. Ship. You can edit a bad page, but you can’t edit a blank one.
The quest for perfection is paralyzing. I’ve watched engineers spend weeks debating the ideal architecture for something they’ve never built. The perfect solution rarely emerges from thought alone - it emerges from contact with reality. AI can in many ways help here.
First do it, then do it right, then do it better. Get the ugly prototype in front of users. Write the messy first draft of the design doc. Ship the MVP that embarrasses you slightly. You’ll learn more from one week of real feedback than a month of theoretical debate.
Momentum creates clarity. Analysis paralysis creates nothing.