This is a fecund article as evidenced by the excellent comments here it has sparked.

My half-serious takeaways are: Peters mistakes overplanning and over-complexifying for systems thinking.

Some things really are complex. They stretch the boundaries of Einstein's idea that things should be as simple as possible but no simpler.

Anyone who thinks rapid prototyping is "play" hasn't been in a high-intensity production environment.

Peters is a popularizer but he sure can get the mental blood flowing.

You can't define a minimum viable product with which to start prototyping without some good planning/thought.

Perhaps to belabor the analogy, part of getting ready to fire is some amount of aiming.

The rap (deserved or not) on Microsoft is that it does the worst of both overplanning and then releasing products (prototypes?) that the customers have to "test". Slow-prototyping?

I like Bloomberg's quote, "We act from day one..."

The oil hunting analogy shows Peters' basic idea flaw because in order to drill test wells you have to read maps and study. Plus lack of planning can get very expensive in that field.

Was it Beckett who said, "Fail better." Even that requires planning along with the experience.

Attributing the loss of the House to "Hillary care" is solidly in the "dumb-simplifier" category.

Good enough depends on very intelligent implementation and feedback. Going off half-cocked is fine if the foreplay is effective. :-)

There is a difference in writing in which all your rapid prototyping is done in your drafts than in putting out an under-developed product. Although there are some experiments with crowd-sourcing writing too.

I liked this submariner catch-phrase, "Water in the people tank."

One comment said: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon My thought was, "So is death."

Ah lazy Sunday mornings.