Christopher Davison

Web Dev, IT Professional, T-Shirt Ninja, Life Hacker, Bug Squasher, Mountain Biker, Bacon Addict, Steam Punk

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this is actually my reaction when someone asks me to jump on a quick call

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shipping fast vs shipping smart

There's this weird thing happening in my founder friend group lately where everyone's obsessed with shipping velocity.

Like, genuinely obsessed.

I'll be on a call with someone and they'll be like "Yeah we shipped 12 features this month" and there's this pride in their voice, like they just told me they ran a marathon.

But then I ask "Cool, which ones are people actually using?" and there's this pause.

And I get it. The AI tools make it sooooo easy to ship now. You can go from idea to live feature in like 6 hours with Cursor, Bolt, Lovable, V0 and Claude. The dopamine hit of seeing something you built in production is addictive.

I did the same thing when I first discovered no-code tools in 2019. I was building like 3 apps a week just because I could. Felt like I was crushing it.

But through that I learned there's shipping to learn something and shipping because you feel like you should be shipping.

The difference is huge.

Shipping to learn looks like: "We think our users want XYZ, let's build the simplest version and see if they actually use it."

Shipping because you can looks like: "We haven't shipped anything in a week, let's add that feature we talked about."

When you're optimizing for output instead of outcome thats a trap. You ship five features in a month and wonder why their metrics didn't move.

The ability to build fast became a drug, and now a trap is chasing the wrong high.

The teams that are actually winning have one thing in common

They document everything. Not for users, for themselves. What they're shipping, why they're shipping it, what they expect to learn.

sometimes thats in words, sometimes that's in founder-led video.

This creates this weird insight flywheel. Writing forces you to articulate your assumptions. Those assumptions become testable. The results feed back into better decisions.

The act of writing "we're building this because we think X" makes you realize how often you don't actually know what X is.

The friction to ship got so low that the friction to think feels relatively massive. It's easier to just build something than to sit with uncertainty about whether it's the right thing.

But the best builders I know have gotten really good at sitting with that uncertainty. They'll spend days just talking to users before writing a single line of code.

They ship fast when they need to learn something. They ship slow when they already know what they're building.

So if you're feeling the pressure to ship constantly

Ask yourself: am I shipping to learn or am I shipping to feel productive?

Both are fine. Just know which one you're doing.

[Christopher Davison @chris_davison]

@santos_wallace Only for the BART stations in SF apparently... but yeah is a silly rule only put in place for cleanliness reasons and selectively enforced. Enforcement of this rule has been controversial as you can imagine.

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@julianlehr @FilipeSommer @linear @julianlehr is the "similar issues" feature available on all plans or only after upgrading? Would like to give it a try before recommending to peers. Haven't found any documentation on how to turn it on.

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I just earned the 'Brewery Pioneer' badge on @untappd! https://t.co/luY5ab2bjl

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@strategicpause I think it depends on the platform, but yeah I would consider anything periodic to be a background job or a scheduled task.

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☺️ New post: The Guide to Unbundling Reddit

Covering why Reddit is being unbundled right now and tips on how-to to build your own successful vertical network product

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Collaborate on any app like it's Google Docs! @Jsherwani sold Screenhero to Slack, but it couldn't integrate it right, so he rebuilt it as Screen https://t.co/KRKfh1UD1S

[Christopher Davison @chris_davison]

After installing VMware Workstation 15, I was getting an error trying to start up my virtual machines. The error states that VMware isn’t compatible with Defender Credential Guard. Here’s how I fixed it. [[MORE]] I had to run a bcdedit command... https://t.co/hd71PWMOxE

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Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition is coming to PC this summer!

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Remember the app, Bump? To share files between two phones? Glad to see it coming back in a new form! https://t.co/GeZbS0lI5l

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