Someone nitpicks this which is an invitation for someone else to nitpick that. One of the penalties of nitpicking at the wrong time is that nitpicking often attracts a crowd. Nitpicking is a valuable skill, as long you deploy it at the right time for the right reasons. Once you’ve been around it for a while you tend to improve your sensitivity to what’s worth doing before you ship and what can wait until later.Īnd BTW, nitpicking may be construed as a pejorative, but I don’t believe it is. There are no hard and fast rules here – it just takes judgement and experience. Part of training yourself to ship is to recognize what details are really worth nitpicking and when. Like everything, there are varying degrees. And some really matter now and can’t wait for later. Some never matter, some matter later, but not now.
And of course any time you talk about details mattering, you’re speaking in very broad generalizations. They do, but details aren’t fixed – they’re relative. Knowing when to squint is a good thing to know.
Your peripheral vision shrinks, but the center is still bright. It’s sort of like squinting – you lose the detail, but you can still see the overall big picture shape, form, and function. Stuff that we could tweak, but really shouldn’t be grabbing our attention given all the other high value bits we need to hit. The shipping goggles make you less sensitive to little nits and scrapes and things that might be able to be a little bit better, but really don’t need to be right now. One of the biggest challenges of shipping a product is knowing when to put on the shipping goggles.
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