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As a product person you are usually trying to find a balance between time to market and amount of value delivered to your users. In other words, if something produces a lot of value and you don’t have to spend ages before you release it - you are good to go. Of course you should have some level of confidence in what you are going to do and raising up this level is a really good habit....

One of my weekly tasks brought me to Google Cloud Platform instance to deploy a tiny R script as a cron job. This script makes some data transformations and writes the results to Google Sheets. I use googlesheets4 package to communicate with Google Sheets and it works frictionless on my local machine. But Ubuntu cloud instance is not a local Windows machine. I do not use interactive mode on instances and browser as well so the common OAuth authorization is not the case here....