A lesson from the health care bill
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There's much about the health care bill that kinda sucks all around. Regular folk will hate one part, insurance companies another, the Medicare folks are convinced it is going to halt their gravy train while the religious right are convinced this is all the handiwork of Satan.
What part of it you like or don't like isn't really the point. The fact that it got through, in some form, is.
When building technology, the best idea is to launch fast and lean, then iterate often. What that means is that you don't overbuild, making sure you've anticipated every contingency of your user's behavior. That's impossible anyway. You just get something up there and then start working through the kinks and problems, adding in things you think would be really cool along the way.
A lot of chefs, when they get into areas of their business in which they aren't as comfortable, they tend to get caught up in perfect. Their food is perfect, so why not things like press releases, photography and newsletters? The problem is, perfect takes a lot of time and money and chefs don't have that kind of time or money, so nothing happens.
Something, in the area of marketing, is better than nothing. And while perfect is infinitely better, it is only really better if the newsletter gets done, the photography gets posted or the press release gets distributed.
Perfect and not done is nothing. Any sort of something is better than that.
What part of it you like or don't like isn't really the point. The fact that it got through, in some form, is.
When building technology, the best idea is to launch fast and lean, then iterate often. What that means is that you don't overbuild, making sure you've anticipated every contingency of your user's behavior. That's impossible anyway. You just get something up there and then start working through the kinks and problems, adding in things you think would be really cool along the way.
A lot of chefs, when they get into areas of their business in which they aren't as comfortable, they tend to get caught up in perfect. Their food is perfect, so why not things like press releases, photography and newsletters? The problem is, perfect takes a lot of time and money and chefs don't have that kind of time or money, so nothing happens.
Something, in the area of marketing, is better than nothing. And while perfect is infinitely better, it is only really better if the newsletter gets done, the photography gets posted or the press release gets distributed.
Perfect and not done is nothing. Any sort of something is better than that.

Except in the case of this healthcare bill. Nothing would have been better than this