| I guess this is the cycle: 1) "Some things you should care enough about to do badly." - Start as a hobby 2) “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” - You work on it some more but you are still mediocre at it 3) "If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing." - You work at it, again and again and you have a ton of iterations But you get tired and you question what you are working on; #4,#5,#6 creeps in your head 4) "If a thing is not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well." 5) "If doing something isn't worth the effort, doing it well won't fix that." 6) "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." I see 4,5,6 a lot in "features". Techs spend too much time on features that no one really cares about. Its the same for crappy movies.. lots of talented people work on really crappy work.. 99% of the time its not their own passion project. In todays, work-world, we are forced to do great work on really vapid stuff. I see 1,2,3 in really passionate people and what the world gets are iterations, variety and meaningful work. *the world is better for it - scientist, entrepreneurs and artist do this. Many variations and angles of an idea. A lot of times, the body of work becomes meaningful. |