One gains nothing in other words by starting out with the question: “What is acceptable?”
Fails to live up to the expectation of effective and excellent work by asking what is acceptable—that is, what can be compromised across the board to meet the minimum expectations
Matt mullenweg tells a story of an early publishing engine he built that wasn’t pretty at all but published written text into online text within seconds or minutes—an order of magnitude faster and simpler than the alternative. That’s the important thing, and he compromised on everything else he could to do the important thing excellently rather than marginally well.
