On shipping small

The hardest part of building isn't writing the code — it's deciding what not to build. Every feature you defer is one you don't have to maintain.

Start with the spine

Build the thinnest possible version that does the one thing. For this site that was: render a page, list some posts, show one post. Everything else came later.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast — in that order.

Then iterate

Once the spine holds weight, adding to it is cheap and low-risk. You learn what actually matters by using the thing, not by imagining it.

Ship small. Ship often. Learn in public.