Re: [FoRK] Just fucking build it!™

[Ken Meltsner]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:44 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
...
> I found this somewhat inspirational, particularly the tagline;
> whether I'll manage to apply it this year at all remains to be seen:
>
>    http://dominiek.com/articles/2008/1/6/building-a-com-in-24-hours
>
> The money shot:
>
> "Aahhh a new project has been born. Let's open up MS Word and fill in
> our Prince 2 Project template. Herein we can properly plan for all
> things we need to be doing and all risks and…  Neh, just kidding!
> Let's open up that bottle of wine and… just fucking build it!™"


...

Steve Jobs: "Real artists ship."

cf: http://alex.golub.name/log/2005/02/09/real-artists-ship/

Personally, I find calling whatever I'm working on a "draft" or a
"beta" tends to free me from analysis paralysis;  the
"prototype/squash the prototype" approach works pretty well., except
that too many people try to use my prototypes for production
applications.  Another curse of being a genius....

Ken