True perfection is impossible.

You can create the illusion of it, but only in limited contexts for short periods of time.

Maintaining the illusion gets super-linearly more expensive with scale and time.

The illusion of perfection can be shattered in an instant with a single visible imperfection.

Sometimes someone gets their start with something that is nearly perfect, which means they will feel the desire to keep that perception going as they scale, since it was the wedge that got them momentum in the first place.

But trying to maintain that illusion becomes an all-consuming, oppressive cage that distracts from everything else you could be doing.

It's better to have beautiful fundamentals and messy optics than beautiful optics and messy fundamentals.

It takes humility to acknowledge that you aren't perfect, but doing so frees you up to add true value.