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As someone who's struggled with starting projects from scratch multiple times over and not releasing anything for many years because it was never good enough, half-assing is not the mindset that helped me start shipping things. Rather, it was gaining an understanding about which parts of my code don't need to be perfect right now and also realizing that practically nothing is perfect the first time you do it.

I now leave a bunch of TODOs in my code as a reminder to myself that yes, this isn't the best it can be, I'll come back and make it better when it becomes a bottleneck, but for the time being 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing. This way I'm able to move on and continue doing meaningful work rather than wasting time obsessing over minute details that almost nobody else would care about.