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by ak39 4021 days ago
Here's a confession: I'm afraid to ship. I'm afraid of being rejected and of being dismissed, and of being seen as a failure. So I bullshit myself that "doing the thing" in the latest and greatest new framework, new language will at least mean that I "learnt something". Failure sounds less irredeemable when you count the dividends of new frameworks learnt!

It has taken me decades to confront this thinking in myself and even now, at times, I run into this logic. It's automatic thinking.

I like the article. You have to be 100% crystal clear that you are interested in the delivery of the finished concept and not the tools you used to build it.

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Just remember that that is common and that all businesses are held together with strings and chewing gum, but you can only see yours. The rest are not as polished as they look.