🏎️ fast prototyping vs. "perfectionism"

3 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube excerpt (speaker: Charles Cormier) arguing for a fast-prototyping mindset over lab perfectionism: release work into the real world to test, measure, and learn because workshop conditions miss real-world issues. The speaker encourages researchers to stop delaying deployment for perceived perfection and to gather real-world feedback.

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But occasionally you just have to go and try something outside the box just to see if there's a better way of doing it. And so having that mentality of constantly testing, checking, measuring, there's a lot of fear out of the lab on, you know, they want to make it perfect before they actually put it out into the real world. And I've said that to my, my researchers time and time again. We have to put this out and see what happens in the real world, but we have to find out, because there will be things that we do not foresee in a workshop that immediately become apparent once it goes out into the real world. 100%.