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Of Perfection, Perfectionism, and Perfect Web Apps

jarkko
September 29, 2011

Of Perfection, Perfectionism, and Perfect Web Apps

My highly personal talk from Frozen Rails 2010 on the perils of perfectionism, something that's plagued me through my whole life.

jarkko

September 29, 2011
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  1. Scott Beale / laughingsquid.com "We're so obsessed with building baseball

    fields that we forget we're supposed to play in them."
  2. 1. Ship 2. Get the word out 3. There’s no

    step 3 (we’re dealing with Rails, after all)
  3. MVP

  4. Correct: The Goldman Sachs case is an interesting twist of

    the so-called Magnetar Trade (http://myarticle- about-it.com). The difference is, in this case Goldman was the issuer of the hedge fund, whereas Magnetar was just a client buying the CDO.
  5. "I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect,

    I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may." — Tyler Durden http://www.flickr.com/photos/doczork/145199485/