Platitudes Of Doom

That's where the challenge of building quality products starts to creep in. The constant tension of shipping faster versus shipping better. Falling into a cycle of "Ship, then iterate" is a trap. It ends up being more  shiterate . Things happen and that "fast-follow" V1.1 release or V2.0 you had imagined probably won't. There's alwa

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Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.

Most execution problems are culture or strategy problems (misalignment, different strategies). Indicator: does the bandage you applied keep falling off?