Of Perfection, Perfectionism, and Perfect Web Apps

My highly personal talk from Frozen Rails 2010 on the perils of perfectionism, something that's plagued me through my whole life.

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1. Of perfection, perfectionism and perfect web apps Jarkko Laine
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertball/4574258804/
13. ...but never post to our own blog
14. ...but can’t actually DO anything
15. ...but hardly get the gear dirty before needing the next year’s model
16. ...but fail to spend the time to exercise to actually learn the sport
17. XHTML Agile CSS Accessibility XP SCRUM WCAG ECMA TDD BDD
18. never
19. Scott Beale / laughingsquid.com "We're so obsessed with building baseball fields that we forget we're supposed to play in them."
20. 1. Ship 2. Get the word out 3. There’s no step 3 (we’re dealing with Rails, after all)
21. SHIP
22. Launch
23. Dump the clutch
24. Shipping is hard
25. perfect for whom?
26. MVP
27. MVP Fuck
28. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcarpenterphotography/4015112557/
29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiteadept/3225912352/
31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiteadept/3225912352/
32. http://www.flickr.com/photos/paperpariah/2424178160/
33. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcarpenterphotography/4015112557/
34. Launch
35. Launch
36. <label for="email">EMAIL</label> <input id="email" name="email" type="text" />
37. Get the word out
38. Market
39. Get out of the closet
40. “Oma kehu haisee”
41. ...if we ever published it
42. told two guys in the previous meeting
43. You owe to your users to tell about your product
44. marketing is not http://www.flickr.com/photos/us_army_rolling_along/3668249791/
45. marketing is not
46. marketing is not leveraging the power of social networks
48. Markets are conversations
49. Wrong: Read my blog w00t: http://lameassdump.com
50. Correct: The Goldman Sachs case is an interesting twist of the so-called Magnetar Trade (http://myarticle- about-it.com). The difference is, in this case Goldman was the issuer of the hedge fund, whereas Magnetar was just a client buying the CDO.
52. 1. dump the clutch 2. Get out of the closet
53. "I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let’s evolve, let the chips fall where they may." — Tyler Durden http://www.flickr.com/photos/doczork/145199485/
54. Thank You #frozenspam