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> Useful software today beats perfect software tomorrow.

this isn't a natural law, it's a product of social incentives and amenable (if perhaps difficult) to change

> A better tactic is to pick one very specific area you think you can make a dent and focus on that.

good advice!



Useful today is a matter of time preference, and as all software is now essentially free, the cost is computer time you already have available. It may not be a law like a law of physics, but it is an observed law of behavior.




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