These are all good points, but many of them feel like straw-man arguments for any experienced product manager.<p>Of course we’re not going to ship a product that’s so bad it’s embarrassing just because a Reid Hoffman aphorism told us to.<p>Maybe the real problem is the overwhelming amount of feel-good hyperbole in the product management literature. Many of the product management books, blogs, and Tweets I read skip right past the pragmatism and try to frame their advice as earth-shattering contrarian revelations. That’s how we go from reasonable advice like “don’t let perfectionism get in the way of shipping a good enough product” to punchy sound bites like “ship when your product is embarrassingly bad!”