Some AI basic truths, a meeting of note, and since it’s pumpkin pie month here’s some mastodon dung backstory…
This morning the first song I wanted to hear was “It’s So Easy to Slip” by Little Feat.
I mention the song simply that when there’s mission creep on projects, I tend to find myself humming the song. While it’s a great song and Lowell George is still greatly missed, mission creep is the easiest boat building disease to fall into and, more often than not, it’s a terminal malady.
For instance, for the last couple of years (yes, YEARS). I’ve been stuck on designing the perfect hard dodger for the Islander and have yet to actually build the sucker. Mission creep married to a quest for perfection is the perfect project killer.
Back when, I built a perfectly adequate hard dodger for our CAL 34 and it only took a few days from start to finish.
Just gettin’ it done.
Not perfect, but…
… it passed Buffy and Willow’s inspection.
Anyway, after scouring the copious amount of ideas and possible dodger solutions, I settled on a very old photo of a dodger-Bimini that I’ve had in my good ideas folder for ages and will just do it pretty much as pictured.
“Just do it” is way better than mission creep stasis.
Just sayin’