code/lab

Inability to get things done may manifest itself in multiple ways including:

• Lack of urgency.  Used to a large company environment where its OK if things take a few weeks longer.
• Easily distracted.  Heavy procrastinator.
• Lazy / doesn’t work hard.  Some very smart people are basically lazy.  Don’t tolerate this.
• Starts but never finishes things.
• Lack of follow through – makes commitments but does not follow up.
• Argumentative. Arguing incessantly about how to do something rather then just doing it.
• Slow.  Taking a long time to code (or do) something simple.
• Perfectionist.  Tendency to overdesign something and to spend 4 weeks building the perfect implementation versus 1 week building the thing that “just works” for 95% of the time.  Sometimes the edge cases need to be covered, but in most raw startups this is not the case.  On the business side this manifests as someone heavy on analysis, low on “doing”.

- Elad Gil via Daniel Miessler