Good enough is a stopping rule
Someone in the group chat drowns in daily tool launches, and the answer he gives is the concept he's been chewing on: try briefly, keep what's sufficiently good, stop searching, which also patches the vaguest word in MVP and ships a six-and-a-half-minute video that wanted to be perfect.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 0:48 (el consejo en el grupo)
- ↳ video diary @ 2:53 (mínimo suficientemente bueno)
- ↳ video diary @ 3:14 (el video que se quedó en 6:30)
The trigger is a message in Vibe Coders Anónimos: new tools launch every day, I don’t know what to try, I don’t have time, what do I do ▸ 0:36. His answer is a stopping rule, not a ranking: try a little, and when something is good enough, stay there until enough people are loudly recommending something new ▸ 0:48. Julia supplies the consumer version: one streaming service was a miracle, fifty produced “¿qué veo? No hay nada para ver” ▸ 1:09. If you’re watching to be entertained rather than to keep up, any sufficiently good option ends the search ▸ 1:31.
Then he uses it to fix a word he’s always preached: MVP. “¿Qué es lo mínimo?” is unanswerably abstract ▸ 2:46; compose the two ideas and you get minimum sufficiently good, a floor with a definition attached ▸ 2:53.
la búsqueda también cuesta; saber parar es la ganancia →
The proof is same-day practice: the application video he just recorded for the Colombian company runs six and a half minutes against a five-minute spec, could be improved enormously, and won’t be, “porque siento que está lo suficientemente bueno, así de simple” ▸ 3:14. And the rule polices its owner too: reviewing the slide marathon he catches himself mid-story, “tal vez acá me pasé un poquito”, too many generated variants compared for too long ▸ 22:19. A stopping rule you can violate and notice violating is the kind that actually changes behavior…