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My regulars will have noticed a rather lengthy hiatus. At least I hope they have.

I want to end that silence starting today.

See, I’ve written the first two paragraphs of many draft posts, but I haven’t posted them:

  1. Too tentative;
  2. Too minor;
  3. Too insufficiently cooked;
  4. Too illiterate;
  5. Too damned embarrassing;
  6. …Too this and that and the other thing.

My Best Laboratory For Exploring Foolishness, Again.

That’d be me.

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But see, that’s different. In those cases, the timber of those poor benighted excellence seeking souls is far far larger than my own itty-bitty-tiny mote.

Those people are opposing an increment of improvement because they’re too enamored of some currently unreachable goal. I, on the other hand, are simply, that is, I mean, what I’m doing is, ummmm, different, in that, my, errr, behavior, is —

Fine.

The shoe fits. I’m wearing it.

When you notice a team stall improvements on the grounds that they’re not perfection, what is the correct recommendation to give?

The correct recommendation is that today’s gain in insight is far more important to us than tomorrow’s, next weeks, next release’s, next quarter’s, next year’s.

As penance, I will do my best to post some short-but-real every other day henceforth, regardless of its readily apparent imperfection.

I Hate This Business


7 Responses to ““Excellence” Opposing “Improvement””

  1. Jeff Grigg says:

    I thought that you had taken a vow of silence. ;->

    Now as for me… I don’t post because I’m lazy. >;->

    I like to think that I prefer a more egalitarian medium where everyone is equal, rather than some being bloggers and others being commenters. (But maybe I’m just lazy. 😉

  2. Of course you know – but perhaps you want a reminder of – Voltaire’s contribution to the subject: “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

  3. Paddy Healey says:

    Glad to see you blogging again. Good stuff too. You’ve inspired me to start working again on all my half finished posts and get something out there (The Waterfall approach to reading, if you’re interested: http://www.ext-it.com/2010/blog/the-waterfall-approach-to-reading.html) . Just as it’s better to get the software out there and iterate it to greatness, it’s better to get ideas out there and improve and refine them over time.