If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
Interpretation
It's important to take action and not delay due to fear of imperfection.
This quote by Matt Mullenweg emphasizes the importance of taking initiative and launching projects without overthinking or striving for perfection. If you are overly concerned about how your initial effort will be received, it likely means you have hesitated too long, and true learning and improvement come from putting your ideas into action and refining them over time.
In practice
In a startup meeting to motivate the team to launch their MVP.
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.
I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.
Concern yourself not with what you tried _x000D_ and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.
I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality.
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