FIRST, DO IT ALL IN ONE HORRIBLE MESSY GO.

[droqen]

Also, when giving a talk, just go as straight as possible to giving a dry run.

[ A. It's hard to know how to make a whole thing, and tempting to plan it out meticulously, scratching out mistakes before they have a chance to take root.
  B. But you just have to make the whole terrible thing, as impossible and simple as that sounds. Make it in a form that's as close as possible to its final form, but only up to a limit -- if its final form is too big and complicated to do it all in one go, choose a lesser final form. Make the lesser version all in one go, then allow yourself to work your way up. ]

[droqen]

from The Timeless Way of Building, regarding reading a five hundred page book:

"If you only have an hour to spend on it, it makes much more sense to [deal with] the whole . . roughly in that hour, than to [deal with] only the first two [parts] in detail.
     Then, if you want to go into detail, you will know where to go, but always in the context of the whole."

the audacity. the beautiful, beautiful audacity.

"turning the pages almost as fast as you can, . . . get the overall structure . . . Then, if you want to go into detail, you will know where to go, but always in the context of the whole."