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gsf_emergency_2 • last Saturday at 4:15 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

>letting perfect be the enemy of good.

My attempt to improve the cliche:

  Let skill be the enemy of taste
2 issues here. Neither can be developed (perfected?) in isolation, but they certainly ramp up at different rates. They should probably feed back into each other somehow, whether adversarially or not

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whatevertrevor • last Saturday at 6:07 AM

The issue as the article points out is you can grow taste much much faster by only engaging in consumption, which leaves skill in the dirt.

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