Good Enough Is Enough!
Let’s ship. Let’s screw up. Let’s improve and ship again.
No frameworks today. Let's talk about God (stay with me here 😅) and why I refuse to chase perfection.They say God created everything in seven days.
Very short and intense sprint, I would say. No iterations, no focus groups, and I suppose not a long planning. This is what you get!
(Okay, fine, there was a flood. But that was version 2.0! )
You can debate the creator’s intentions, the methods, the decisions, or the existence of the creator altogether. But what is hard to argue with is that God was definitely not a perfectionist. Just open the news feed…
It’s created. It’s running. It works (somehow), doesn’t it? That’s all that matters.
Yet here we are, overthinking every single step. We tell ourselves the Substack post has to be epic (after all, such smart, high-level people will be reading it!). No room for mistakes.
Every job interview feels like a final shot. Zero mistakes allowed. Everything has to be flawless.
Every event - absolutely perfect!
I don’t want to play this game.
What do I believe?
I believe that a text with three mistakes, but on time, is better than a perfect text that never came out.
I believe that a corporate newsletter sent with a typo and a broken link is not a catastrophe. Especially if every new newsletter brings you traffic, event registrations, and great open and click rates.
I believe it’s impossible to run an event without some screw-ups. It just doesn’t happen. So your sound guy went on a bender because of family drama, a heavy rainstorm in a hot July flooded the venue, and your artist arrived with a huge bruise on half his face (all three are real cases)!
All we can do is keep creating our imperfect things and try to make them better each time. I mean, even God didn’t exactly nail it with EVEN Version 2.0.
As the character of Will Ferrell, Cam Brady, once said:
“In my lifetime, I have made over 100,000 phone calls and maybe 1,000 of them are obscene! That’s a very small percentage.”
Remember:
Only the one who does not make phone calls never says anything obscene on the phone!
If you’ve read this to the end, thank you!
If you disagree, feel something important is missing, or have anything on your mind, I’d love to hear it in the comments.
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