Perfect stays in your head.
Done meets the world.
And the world
is the only teacher
that tells you the truth.
You can polish a thing forever,
imagining how it'll land,
protecting it from contact —
and learn nothing,
because nothing tested it.
Ship it half-real
and you learn in a day
what a month of polishing
would never show you.
What actually mattered.
What nobody cared about.
What broke
in a way you couldn't predict
from the inside.
Perfect is often fear
wearing the costume
of high standards.
It keeps the work safe
from the only thing
that could make it better —
real feedback,
from outside your own head.
You don't need it flawless.
You need it out,
where reality can correct it.
Done teaches.
Perfect just delays the lesson.
– Serguey Asael Shinder
