WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

We all use the same words, but mean completely different things. Your engineer says the feature is "done" (it's not deployed). Your designer says it's "done" (first draft). Your co-founder calls the new strategy "risky" (exciting!). You hear "risky" (we're gonna die). This stuff kills startups. One person's "by end of day" is 5 pm, another's is midnight. One founder's "love" for the company means 60-hour weeks, the other's means sustainable passion. The fix is stupidly simple: just define your terms. What does "shipped" mean at your company? What's "good enough"?