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Tell at least one of your users that you're going to do it. Then you'll do it.



This is actually a serious problem for me. I tell everybody I'll do everything (at least everything that is sane and good for a sizable number of our customers). I eventually will, but sometimes it gets overwhelming and I end up weeks behind on some of those promises. (My current albatross is that I promised full FreeBSD support in our products well over a year ago...I still haven't released complete FreeBSD support. I think I probably would have finished it long ago if it hadn't taken on this feeling of dread and perpetuity that it has gained in my head.)


Yes. Underpromise, and over-deliver. Never the other way around.




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