Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Ship the minimum viable product #substack #shorts

3 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this short, Phil Powis (Speaker A) critiques the habit of spending excessive time perfecting a presentation or product before sharing it. He contrasts the endless tweaking of PowerPoint slides with the concept of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP), arguing that the goal should be to release the smallest functional version that can be tested with real users. He illustrates the idea with a personal anecdote about planning a Camino pilgrimage: each year he re‑uses a base plan but adapts it for new routes, accommodations, and distances, showing that iteration after launch is more valuable than pre‑launch perfection. The overall message is a call to let go of perfectionism, ship early, gather feedback, and improve iteratively.

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Thank you. There's also this concept of most viable product. It was something I got from, you know, my teaching days of teachers, you know, come up with this PowerPoint, you're putting in all these cool little things back in the days of PowerPoint. I know we've— but, you know, and this little animation and blah, blah, blah, and you could spend hours and hours and hours perfecting this presentation that you're going to give to your students that might take all of 15 minutes, and you might give it and it's crap, and you're like, this is not the way I want to do this at all. And you wasted all that time. And so there's this idea of most viable product, just put out
there.
What's the minimum, the, you know, or minimum, sorry, I'm not most viable, minimum viable product. Like what's the minimum, not to say that it's crappy, but just that it's that version of, is this what people need? Is this what people want? Is this what's going to work? I'm probably going to modify. I mean, everything I created for my first Camino trip, it's going to get modified for this one, even though my first trip this year is the same trip I did last year, but we're staying in different places and we're, you know, we're walking different distances, etc., etc. So this idea of, yeah, let go of like making everything perfect before you put it out there. What's the minimum viable