Perfection is unattainable. You're never going to get something that's perfect, done. Not with your budget. Not with your timeframe. Not so that you can test it to see if that's what people really want. Perfection is an oasis.
So don't aim for that. Come up with a good enough that satisfies most of your perfect criteria. That fits your budget. That fits your timeframe. That gets you one step closer to your ultimate goal. Then ship!
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
Woody Allen once said that "eighty percent of success is showing up." To me, that means, you go to the meeting about the project. You're there...
Being concerned with what people think about you makes you unable to contribute your best work to the world.
If you tell people you are going to be at X location at X time, people take your word for that. If you’re not there, they decide that next time,...
We launched Teleport Brain Control, so that people with a disability may attend school or work remotely via our telepresence robot Teleport,...
I did a campaign post for LinkedIn for International Women’s Day about my Covid experience and the women who inspired me through it. Women are...
Went to Utah and spoke at the Girl Scout National Convention in front of 6000 young women from all over America. Pretty insane! The panel was...
Today I asked myself, what do I want to have achieved in life by the time I’m 50? I wrote down all the major things I would be proud to have...
I write all my blog posts on scrap paper. I printed so many speeches last year that I have all these A4 scrap sheets of paper that just have...
I visited Fetch Robotics as part of a field trip for a Stanford course I took. Fetch Robotics sold to Zebra Technologies for $290 million in 2021....
Wow! What a huge honour! I flew overseas in the wee hours of 27 January, and so the whole experience of being named Young Australian of the Year is...
