In team settings, especially corporate team settings, without a commitment to quality from the top down and from the bottom up, the product will suck. My go-to phrase for this is “Quality is Fractal”.

I think about this so much because quality is so rare. You think, “they have billions in cash and thousands of PhDs, why does their stuff suck so bad?!”

Then you realize that “those whom the gods wish to destroy they give unlimited resources.”

There is always going to be a tension between those two poles, though. Looking at it as “I have to get this out there while it's as perfect as it can be given the talent and resources I have *now*” is helpful, too. Otherwise, you end up endlessly revising the same stuff rather than learning and growing.

Maybe the solution is to look at smaller, simpler things to ship at first. A song is easier than an opera, an essay easier than a book, etc.