Rule 14 of 32 · Chapter III — Delighted by Everything
Build the crude working version this week instead of the perfect version someday.
Why this rule exists
A rough thing that exists teaches you more in a day than a perfect thing that is still being designed teaches you in a year. Planning past a certain point is just anxiety wearing a work shirt. The crude version also surfaces the problems you couldn't have predicted, which is the whole point.
In practice
Set a short deadline and ship whatever is standing by then — the ugly prototype, the one-page draft, the taped-together rig. Show it to someone. Write down what broke. Then decide whether the polished version is even the right thing to build.
When it doesn't apply
Where a failed first attempt injures someone, destroys trust that won't come back, or is legally binding, do the slow careful version. Bridges, medicine and contracts are not places for a rough draft in the wild.