Good enough

I have a difficult time with ‘good enough’.

Some work can’t tolerate ‘good enough’, like:

• pacemaker manufacturing
• invasive surgery
• payroll

Get these things wrong, and someone is going to be either very upset, or dead.

Most work has a threshold of ‘good enough’ past which there are diminishing returns, like:

• code formatting
• animated rig node structure
• email campaigns
• website design
• social media management

It’s worth remembering that, unless you’re working on things in the first list, there is room for some error. There is room for mistakes that can later be fixed. There is permission to try, fail, and try again.

That permission is precisely which leads to them being ‘exactly right’ anyway.