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# Avoiding Perfection while blogging
- URL: https://www.narendravardi.com/tackling-perfection/
- Published: 2022-06-29T02:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-02T11:27:31.000Z
- Author: Narendra Vardi
- Tags: Learnings, Misc, 2022

*In this short article, I will tell you the strategy that helped me to avoid the need to write perfect blog articles.*

Professional Software engineers work with very high standards when writing code and documentation. Over time, they become friends with perfection. 

As a Professional Software engineer, I feel the need to execute things flawlessly, which pushes me to avoid starting personal projects. If I had started one, I would not finish it.

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Perfection takes time.

This was not the case when I was in college. In college, I experimented a lot and would work on personal projects even if they were imperfect. 

Because of this perfection problem, I have avoided blogging, which I was very much passionate about, for quite some time. 

Recently, I have come across a [comment](http://antirez.com/news/135?ref=narendravardi.com#comment-5383725883) by [antitez](http://antirez.com/latest/0?ref=narendravardi.com) (original author of [Redis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redis?ref=narendravardi.com)), which gave me some clarity on how to approach blogging.

> I don't re-read a lot of times my blog posts, because otherwise if this would turn into a lot of work, I could decide to don't blog. I just make sure they are somewhat readable.

After reading this comment, one takeaway for me was to be write articles *that are somewhat readable.*

This is how I solved the perfection problem: 

##### Workflow to reduce the perfection while blogging:

1. Finalise the topic.
2. Write an initial version of the draft. (It can be two lines)
3. Schedule the post to auto-publish at a future date. (Mostly with a two weeks buffer time)
4. Read and make edits and enhancements.
5. Let the post get published.

I believe, this workflow works because I have a hard deadline to finish the article.

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