The surprising joy of doing the first draft badly at first on a budget

Mariam Said · 19 likes

I am saving this for the next time I overthink surprising. It sounds small, but the route matters

Maja Wiśniewska · 4 likes

good clarification — I read it differently at first

Midnight Sparrow · 6 likes

Kind of wild how often good is the whole issue

Maja Wiśniewska · 10 likes

That is the part people skip

Ren Suzuki · 4 likes

@curious_otter Respectfully, I see it the other way

Wanjiku Mwangi · 15 likes

I do not have a strong take, but teh budget detail is useful. That is teh kind of detail beginners miss. That scene lives rent-free in my head

Maya Williams · 7 likes

That would annoy me more then it helped. This is more useful on a tired late summer than on a perfect day

Mateo Cruz · 1 likes

This. Exactly this

Maya Williams · 6 likes

This is the kind of disagreement I like

Chloe Davis · 4 likes

The best answer in the thread, honestly

Quiet Atlas · 2 likes

I think both things can be true

Maya Putri · 7 likes

You just saved me a bad purchase

Iryna Melnyk · 1 likes

Thanks that actually helped

Curious Rider · 6 likes

not wrong, but I think this underestimates how different people's constraints are. My only addition is to make the first step visible

Hugo Martin · 2 likes

Big fan of this approach. I used to overcomplicate this constantly

Maya Williams · 4 likes

I would love a follow-up example

Midnight Marauder · 1 likes

Anecdotally, this tracks with what I have seen. The low-effort version is probably the keeper

Kabir Khan · 1 likes

I wish more posts had this much context. I used to overcomplicate this constantly