“you have to be perfect to learn that Perfection is a not the right way I used to be like very very very minic about like let's do this in the right way and spend a lot of time tinkering not shipping so I learned the hard way by failing and taking the shot hitting the rock bottom”

Pursue perfection once so you can permanently abandon it

Counterintuitive: try being a perfectionist long enough to hit rock bottom from it. Sharath spent years tinkering instead of shipping, and only after failing that way did he internalize that putting incomplete work out — typos, grammar mistakes, amateur tweets — is the actual path. The rules come first; the jazz comes after step 10.