When Being Good Is Bad

But be careful, because if there is a wall right in front of you, and you decide to ignore it, because "ship!", you'll hit it anyway, and it won't hurt any less. Viability estimation does not stop being impotant because people in HN are telling you to ship... But it's all meaningless if you don't ship.

I wonder when the perfection fallacy started infecting people's minds. Imo 500 years ago any artisan or common man would have laughed at the idea of achieving results by obsessing over theory. Learning by doing and practice was the obvious way.