The Incrementalist

I’ve decided to separate my work-related postings from the general discussion blog that I share with Nick Fox-Gieg, so that I can be free to geek out here and post extended shop talk that would bore some of my friends to tears.

Why The Incrementalist? Well, after reading Rands’s excellent essay on Incrementalists & Completionists, I realized that the role that I generally play at MAYA is generally that of the former. And my experiences working on buskarma and YouRepresentUs have convinced me that it’s often possible to build something which isn’t perfect, but which makes the world an ever-so-slightly better place. In addition, the Pebble Soup effect often kicks in once you’ve got something up and running—it’s much more rewarding to contribute a marginal improvement to something that’s already functional. And besides, the master plan is almost never completely right. We still need the dreamers to point us toward the horizon, but the best way to get there will always be one step at a time.