The bottom of the barrel Like millions of other people, my shower consists of a large bucket of cold water and a plastic scoop or… Read More »Design Matters (15): Bucket Bath Edition (Kiramas 0318 vs Trixy GN311)
Two long quotations on a theme I’ve been mulling over for the last few weeks. We value excellence and equality (moral equality for sure, and… Read More »Elites: Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Decline and Fall
1) “90% of everything is crud.”* 2) “Nothing is absolutely so.” Theodore Sturgeon Law number one is most useful for rebutting (or ignoring) attacks on… Read More »Sturgeon’s law(s)
The pursuit of perfection gets in the way of doing the work that we need to do. … What does perfection actually mean? … It… Read More »It could have been better (3): Seth Godin on “good enough” and the pursuit of perfection
We must never accept shoddy work – it doesn’t make any sense to make something not as good as it should be. But we are… Read More »It could have been better (2): Seth Godin on limits to quality
It always could be.
Of course you want good quality tools. Definitely not the cheapest available. (These usually get in your way.) Probably not the most expensive. (These usually… Read More »Nothing precious (tools for the job)
Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure,… Read More »Soichiro Honda on success and failure
If you’re feeling overwhelmed or that progress is slow, it may help to look back at last year, when you probably felt the same. A… Read More »Yardstick: more capacity
Where’s the starting line for your project? How good does someone need to be to… Work for you? Work with you? For you to work… Read More »Starting line