Lenny Distilled

Good enough beats perfect

Execution → Shipping Velocity

It's really to help me combat this perfectionism because perfect doesn't exist and you should instead go with good enough because when you ship, that's the moment when you get to learn a lot from your users and you just can't anticipate it.

Julia Schottenstein M&A, competition, pricing, and investing

The biggest enemy of good enough is perfect. You don't need to be perfect. You need to be good enough in order to win the market.

Uri Levine A founder's guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)
Supporting

Time you're planning is not the time you're shipping, and the best is the enemy of the good.

Christina Wodtke The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
Supporting

Write out the list of features that are necessary in your MVP. Cut it in half and cut it in half again and build that. Most people's natural idea of what is necessary is so laughably wrong. People are naturally off by usually one or two orders of magnitude.

Eric Ries Reflections on a movement
Supporting

If it's not embarrassing, you've gone too far. Got to be embarrassing. The first thing, that was embarrassing.

Laura Schaffer Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers
Nuanced

Quality is not luxury. Quality is not perfection. Quality means meeting spec, and if you meet spec, you're done. If you don't think the spec is good enough, make a better spec.

Seth Godin Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
With caveats

When you have to make a choice, think more and ship better. Most experiments should be thought experiments.

Anuj Rathi The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)