"Instead of building an entire giant system with assumptions that you don’t even realize are assumptions… go make it work once." This is really a pet peeve of mine at work—so much time, energy, resources, and yes: even happiness, get wasted through over-engineering processes from scratch instead of trying. to. do. the. damn. thing. once. first.
Yes, this, 100%.
"Instead of building an entire giant system with assumptions that you don’t even realize are assumptions… go make it work once." This is really a pet peeve of mine at work—so much time, energy, resources, and yes: even happiness, get wasted through over-engineering processes from scratch instead of trying. to. do. the. damn. thing. once. first.