Serguey Asael Shinder – IT Professional

For a long time I called myself a perfectionist.

It sounded like a virtue.
It was mostly fear in a nicer outfit.

Perfect was the reason I didn’t ship.
The thing in my head was flawless;
the thing in the world would be judged.

So I kept polishing in private
and finishing nothing.

What changed me was a simple fact:
the unfinished perfect thing
helped exactly no one.

The flawed, shipped thing
got feedback, helped someone,
and taught me what I couldn’t learn alone.

Now I ship a little embarrassed,
on purpose,
and fix it in the open.

Done turned out to be the feature
I’d been avoiding all along.

– Serguey Asael Shinder