Re: [FoRK] Just fucking build it!™

Tue Jan 8 20:48:01 PST 2008

Just to make it official I left the company I helped found:
http://lair.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20041206/032936.html
way back in October of last year (not the founding, the leaving). 

That Jobs quote is perfect right now. Loving python, feedparser, jquery, and news.ycombinator.com. And hating lack of focus!
Owen

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Meltsner <meltsner at alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 11:38pm
To: Friends of Rohit Khare <fork at xent.com>
Subject: Re: [FoRK] Just fucking build it!™

On Jan 8, 2008 9:44 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
...
> I found this somewhat inspirational, particularly the tagline;
> whether I'll manage to apply it this year at all remains to be seen:
>
>    http://dominiek.com/articles/2008/1/6/building-a-com-in-24-hours
>
> The money shot:
>
> "Aahhh a new project has been born. Let's open up MS Word and fill in
> our Prince 2 Project template. Herein we can properly plan for all
> things we need to be doing and all risks and…  Neh, just kidding!
> Let's open up that bottle of wine and… just fucking build it!™"

...

Steve Jobs: "Real artists ship."

cf: http://alex.golub.name/log/2005/02/09/real-artists-ship/

Personally, I find calling whatever I'm working on a "draft" or a
"beta" tends to free me from analysis paralysis;  the
"prototype/squash the prototype" approach works pretty well., except
that too many people try to use my prototypes for production
applications.  Another curse of being a genius....

Ken

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