[vram22]

>The difficulty I find is, identifying the moment to leave the hammock again in a startup enviroment. To what degree do you need to understand a problem before you take action. If you try to understand it 100%, you'll never get anything out there.

Agreed. The problem, though, (and I'm painting with a broad brush here) is that the erring tends to be much more on the side of not trying to understand much or at all, of the problem, before jumping into action. I think a lot of it is due to peer pressure and wanting to be "seen" by peers and bosses (and VCs) to be doing stuff, as opposed to really getting things done better in the medium term, even if in the short term it looks like you are not acting but "only" thinking or analyzing or designing stuff. Hence my comment in that post I linked to, about "we have to ship next week". All too common - been there, seen a good amount of that. In fact, this subthread between HN user jacquesm and me just recently, is basically about the same point, although described in different words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774234

>But I'm already very happy that I was able to convince the business side of the company of the approach in a brief talk about it and they now referrer to "the hammock" themselves :)

Cool :)