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# What I learned from shipping badly
- URL: https://astrix-fieldnotes.adrianoamalfi.com/what-i-learned-from-shipping-badly/
- Published: 2026-07-20T17:42:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-20T18:14:09.000Z
- Description: The thing I was ashamed of taught me more than the three polished things before it.
- Author: Devin Hale
- Tags: Process

I once shipped something I was not proud of, on a deadline, with bugs I knew about. I braced for the reckoning. It never came — instead, real people used it, told me what was actually wrong (not what I feared was wrong), and I fixed the right things for once.

Shipping badly beats polishing privately, every time. The work does not get good in the drawer.