Reflections of 10 Days On Ship30

To learn is to lean into the uncomfortable — onto the deconstruction of yourself, on having those uncomfortable conversations, on challenging your own beliefs, on a leap of faith.

Learning is part of FAILing [First Attempt In Learning].
The most effective way to learn something is by doing and delivering. And that’s what we’re coming up with on this 30 days of writing. Delivering. Shipping.

It’s ok if it’s not perfect, you can always work on it. Being or having it perfect will only hold us back and let us have that feeling of incompleteness; but also safe, comfortable, regular. We’re not out. It’s always better(?) to say “I could have done it better than this other one. My idea was ‘way better’”. Sure. Did you make it happen, though? As Guy Kawasaki put it in The Art Of Innovation: Don’t Worry, Be Crappy — just don’t sell crap.

An innovator doesn’t worry about shipping an innovative product with elements of crappiness if it’s truly innovative. If a company waits until everything is perfect, it will never ship, and the market will pass it by.

That’s learning, iterating and being flexible to keep improving: Can we do better?

To learn is also to lean into risk. Feeling awkward when you’re trying something new is precious — we don’t know if this will pay off in the short term or ever at all, but if we try to see the bigger picture, it can go a long way. The unexpected thing to happen.

Learning: Failing, embracing, improving and sometimes pivoting.

Risk small — please, just don’t put a mortgage on your house — and learn something new. And apply it.

Now, dear shipper, keep shipping.

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