I heard Seth Godin say this on a podcast with Tim Ferriss:
"If you don’t have time to do it right, how will you find time to do it over?"
I often feel i get caught up in solving things reactively, on-the-go, as quickly as possible. Often times under budget constraints from customers, and without managing to fairly price based on the time it takes to actually do the job well. Not just solving the current problem, but making considerations as to if the problem is worth solving at all, or rather if the root problem actually lies elsewhere.
More often than not the more resilient problem solving, is looking deeper at the problem, and removing layers of complexity, rather than adding more. But at the same time, the quickest way to find a solution is to patch work.
Aaron Abrams shared the following image that well summarized the issue:
Image showing task list with or without writing tests
As much as I strive towards the "doing it right once" direction, it cannot be done without the understanding from customers of its actual benefits.
But it has to start somewhere. The least I can do it share my thoughts about it.
This year I have decided to make the leap, and transition from my trusty Gmail account. I have long considered to, but the task felt so huge that I always pushed it aside.
I was a user of gmail since the early beta-stages. For a long time I was even a huge proponent of it. Suggested it to friends and family as a great alternative to hotmail, gmx, outlook and the likes. At the time it was a big plus for me that it was «free», and I had absolutely no interest in paying money when a free option was available.
Fast forward 20 years, and I still have that «free» gmail account. Except this time I know the greater picture of that free-business model. I know that I’ve basically given insight to my whole digital mailbox the last 2 decades, and it starts to bother me looking back.
I no longer look at free products as being actually free, but consider what lies within the free-model. Maybe its just me getting older too, but I can’t help but feel much more inclined to use products that are fairly priced in an understandable way – rather than free products that I either don’t understand how makes money, or don’t like how makes money.
Which is why I’m now here. This is my new home for my emails. Hey perfectly answers all my wishes for what an email service should be.
It will take time. I know that. I will still depend on gmail for a while longer. But the transition has started.
