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Putting on my nitpick hat:

I think scrappy and mcguyver could be the same hat.

I also think chef here is really craftsman, whereas chef makes me think of cooking, as in playful discovery, which is worth its own hat.

As someone else mentioned, war time / emergency this is not a drill hat deserves a spot on the shelf.

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IIUC scrappy is just poorly named; it's about taking a minimalist approach, which IMO is distinct from the "baling wire and duct-tape" implied by the MacGyver approach.

The former might be worth keeping around, the latter is firmly in the "build one to throw away" territory.

right, scrappy is about implementing the bare minimum needed, keeping it small and simple, and mcgyver is about using what gives me the fastest results, even if that means hooking up wordpress to mongodb and using excel as the interface to input data.

FWIW I know a self-described scrappy who is definitely in the mcgyver category.

Hey, author here! Yes, that's how I see it as well.

incidentally, yesterday i saw "scrappy" used in a job description for the first time. i was unfamiliar with that term before reading your post.

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