| I think that the blog post is missing a key aspect of success: its subjective, and not bound by absolute rules. This automatically rejects 4 out of the 6 "Truths" listed in the blog post. Finishing something is not the definition of success, specially because "finishing" can mean anything to anyone and arguably there is no such thing as "finished". "Quality" is also very subjective and can mean anything to anyone, and it's definitely not a key part of success. We have companies which became successful in spite of being based on MVPs hastily put together to rush to market, and rewriting a mess of a MVP is not what makes the company or the development effort a success. The "Marketing" bit sounds like a rejection of all other points in the blog post, and it's also tied to the subjective definition of "success". The blurb on the Pareto principle is clearly not involved in any metric of success. This is only the author expressing his personal concerns on how they find it hard to deliver after over-promising and facing the likelihood of underdelivering on that promise. Overall I don't think there is anything of substance on this blog post. It sounds like the author has trouble setting his personal and professional goals and struggles to meet them at a standard that he feels he is bounded to deliver. Even though that might match the blogger's personal definition of a rewarding outcome, I feel that even from their personal standpoint the definition of success actually depends exclusively on what they commit to deliver. Someone in their shoes might actually do better if they don't promise to deliver the blogger's definition "quality" and proceed to actually finish what they promise because it's achievable and realistic and they don't have to turn themselves into a martyr to reach an arbitrary goal. |