[matwood]

Talking is easy, executing is hard. Executing requires discipline which so many people seem to lack.

One of the reasons I love making people write down their idea (myself included) before talking about it is that writing forces a small initial execution step. Even a step this small can often filter the useless ideas away.

[yeukhon]

This is where design doc should be required. At my company we engineers are required to come up with a design doc and share with the whole org for feedback then a design meeting that takes place every week. At first I thought this was a step back because I felt it was a water fall but after writing my own design doc I quickly realized “talking is really fucking cheap.” Sitting down and write a doc that considers as many corner cases and implementation really produce high quality work. It’s all about discipline indeed.

[Annatar]

"At my company we engineers are required to come up with a design doc and share with the whole org for feedback then a design meeting that takes place every week."

Wow, true system engineering! Your company sounds like a good place to do some professional work.

[yeukhon]

Feel free to visit oscar career page.

[matwood]

That's great. A design doc is even a step beyond just writing down the idea. Bezos is famous for making people write one pagers to pass out prior to talking about any idea. I see one pagers as way to quickly weed through a bunch of ideas, and a design doc as the next step to determine feasibility.

[yeukhon]

It really is a great tool for validate ideas.

Sorry for my grammar above as I was typing on my mobile phone halfway on the bus.