"Done is better than perfect" is brilliant. It is motivational, succinct, and easy to believe. From my particularly context of a side project with no real deadlines, however, I can have perfect if I want to. There's no race against the clock, nobody to report to, nobody relying on my results -- just me and my idea.
At any rate, I'll tweak the "done-perfect" lever more towards done.
Whether you think there is a race against the clock or not, time passes regardless; your mind changes, your body ages, technologies change, people change. By the time you're done with your "perfect" creation, it will be too late to matter.
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"Done is better than perfect" is brilliant. It is motivational, succinct, and easy to believe. From my particularly context of a side project with no real deadlines, however, I can have perfect if I want to. There's no race against the clock, nobody to report to, nobody relying on my results -- just me and my idea.
At any rate, I'll tweak the "done-perfect" lever more towards done.
Whether you think there is a race against the clock or not, time passes regardless; your mind changes, your body ages, technologies change, people change. By the time you're done with your "perfect" creation, it will be too late to matter.