Feb 14

Writing posts is like shipping a 1.0 product

The product might not be the fastest or the most stable but you should ship it anyways

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I've written at least 10 blog posts since my last post on my site, but for some reason, I felt like I needed to double-check or triple check every word and what I've meant to say, and because of a lack of time and energy I've felt I should postpone publishing my new posts till they got to a point where I was comfortable with them.

Here I am 4 months later and I still haven't posted one single post since November and I ask myself if it's really worth getting my head filled with the information that I have posts to publish and yet I do nothing with them. I think it gets tiring after a while to seek perfection in the detriment of actual work, so in line with the quote of "version one usually sucks but you should release it anyways" I think I will start publishing more often even thou I feel that I need to take more time to proofread my ideas and the spelling, and whatnot ... I will not delay them as I did up to this point because:

  1. I am in a position where I'm just starting out to blog so not a lot a people know about this blog

  2. Since I didn't advertise this blog I don't give out to people wild expectations out of me, or to the quality of my posts

  3. Because of all the above, I can always rely on the edit button, if there is something that is not clear I can always come back and do an edit, or maybe I am lucky and a reader of the blog can comment on what they felt it's unclear to them, thus benefiting from the fact that I've done something to make the reader connect to me through an action that they were willing to perform.

Gaining wisdom and taking actions

I liked one blog post that I read or comment on reddit I can't remember where I found it but it was something like:

  1. version one --- slow and sloppy

  2. version two --- better than version one

  3. version three --- faster than version two

  4. version N --- perfection

I don't want to waste my time anymore going for version N so I think I will just start from now on from version 1 and see where that takes me.

So what about you? Will you waste your time achieving perfection or will you ship the product and steadily improve it?