Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It

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Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrell

1277 episodes

1 week ago

Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com

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Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It

Developer Tea

20 minutes 3 seconds

4 months ago

Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It

This episode discusses why perfection is a dangerous and fragile goal, explaining how striving for 100% leads to unsustainable outlier states. It highlights how setting perfection as a bar can cause commitments to break and plans to fail due to a lack of slack, and offers strategies like building redundancy and planning with slack to achieve goals more effectively without relying on perfection.