“Launch Quickly and Iterate” — My New Approach to Medium and Life

Kevin Ann
2 min readJul 14, 2024

I haven’t posted on Medium regularly in a long time since I haven’t been able to overcome the immense activation energy barrier to writing a well-polished draft checking for spelling, grammar, style, flow, etc.

In the spirit of just getting something out ASAP as an MVP (Minimal Viable Product) that will be subject to the iterative refinement of “0 to 1” in tech startups, I’ll be prioritizing getting my thoughts out and/or collating what I’ve written elsewhere with minimal editing for an “MVP” = “Minimal Viable Publication”.

When I have motivation, time, energy, attention, reason, etc. to do so, may come back to edit for presentation. It’s far more important to get “anything” out than something perfect out. The perfect is the enemy of the good enough.

The following two memes are incredibly deep for launching a product and making progress in tech startups, so I’m applying it to many things in life, including posting on Medium.

Launch quickly, then iterate. Post quickly, then iterate.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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Kevin Ann
Kevin Ann

Written by Kevin Ann

AI/full-stack software engineer | trader/investor/entrepreneur | physics phd

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