I spent a good while living a life that looked something like "the worst." There's a lot to be said for it. And Moxie does a pretty great job presenting it, but perhaps too great a job: he glosses over the many times when the worst really let's you down.

Sure, having the best fork may not matter that much, but having the best knife is actually pretty great if you like to cook. Sleeping on couches is pretty sweet, but it is also a good thing to have the best mattress. Especially if you don't want to spend a lot of time sleep deprived.

The worst sometimes looks like making do and you discover that in some circumstances it takes quite a bit of time to make do.

I'm now a proponent of " The Good Enough" - which is a philosophy that works both ways. You need to have things that are good enough that they don't get in the way of the thing you want to be doing. And you want to be able to know when your stuff is good enough that you can stop thinking about it.

The funny thing about this is that half the readership of Hacker News probably makes their money by making useless feature creep