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Obsession with details

Hi everybody.

What do you think of being obsessed with every little detail as an entrepreneur? Do you think it is good or is it making your progress slower?

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    It’s my Achilles heel, I spent lots of time finetuning the UI and UX of my products as that is what differentiates them from the competition.

    BUT I think the last 20% I put in isn’t really necessary, it’s so difficult to stop at the right level of polish.

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      Same here. I for the most of the past few years, believed that these nuances make the real difference. Not so sure now.

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    It's usually a bad habit that's hard to break.
    Due you can find extreme cases where it's good, the issue is with doing this too early on an unvalidated project before knowing it has any significance.
    Programmers have the term premature optimisation.
    The early phase needs to be quick and dirty - ugly, low details, low fidelity, super quick ( relatively)
    Recently I looked at game building, they have people play test with "programmer graphics" commonly with just a cube repressing stuff like players, enemy, terrain (not like mine craft, actual empty cubes), if it's not fun like that all the graphic and sound and other details don't matter, due you can claim they care about the details of the game mechanics...

    You need to be able emotionally to interact with people about your product when it's just cubes. (Easier said than done IMHO)

    Some products on later stages benefits from pedantic details level as long as it doesn't block the company/other things... I know a really important company with 10's of programmers, and many others employed where the founder personally cares for fonts sizes and such, honestly I read somewhere Amazon homepage gets some care eye from the CEO 🤷 probably should double check before spreading false news. Apple's CEO used to care about many details... They are a very detailed oriented company at least of the design side event at the expense of functionality... Dead mouse charging grumble... But few successful companies are like that to my knowledge

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      Great details. Thanks. That is the problem I need to overcome.

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        Switch the focus

        Your not building a product anymore
        Your serving a customer
        What does he need?
        Would he apprichate you postponing helping him for dealing with that detail?
        Use time as the monster chasing you from the back, you only get so many more newyears.
        Would you actually help someone with something?
        Perfecting something at home where no one ever heard about it helps no one.
        You need support to keep perfecting you thing.
        For that you need to help people before it's done.
        If perfection is your goal it would never be done.
        Ask Japanese super craftsman's 40+ years it's still not perfect.
        Also perfection becomes an excuse for avoiding the fear of being varnable and showing your work at whatever state it is.

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