Developer Tea
Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It
20 minutes Posted Jul 9, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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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.