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Who ships? System 1 or System 2?

Every time I know we're ready to deploy I get nervous. What if my code breaks everything? Have I tested everything? Have I remembered everything?

Is this my freewheeling system 1 taking over what should otherwise be a system 2 activity? Or is my system 2 stepping in, squelching my system 1's desire to just deploy and move on by saying "hold on, let's think this through a bit more?"

I hesitate. Almost as if I'd rather keep the code to myself. I test things again.

Whether system 2 takes over or lets go I'm not sure. But after a few deep breaths I remember what Steve Jobs said: "Real artists ship" or what 37 signals said: "Shipping beats perfection...anybody can fix anything." Not that I think I'm an artist, and I probably can't fix anything but I type in one of the most exiting phrases ever developed:

$ git push heroku master

After everything loads and restarts I do some quick click-throughs on the live site. Both systems are happy.

#programming

Lisbon

#lisbon #portugal

Lisbon

Hiking the 'Vidden', Bergen Norway

#norway

Sognefjord, Norway

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Train tunnel en route from Oslo -> Myrdal, Norway

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Warehouse district canal, Hamburg

Etosha, August 2011

#Etosha #Namibia #Flamingo

Zuriberg, Feb 2013

#switzerland #zurich

I managed to drop the one thing you don't want to drop when I was packing a box in the kitchen this morning, fish oil. You know, the stinky stuff that makes Thai food taste like Thai. I was debating about throwing it away rather than bringing when it took matters into its own hands. Off the counter it jumped. Splat. All over the kitchen floor and cabinets. I guess it wanted to stay.

Hilltop farming.

#ag agriculture

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