About
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I have always hated that aphorism. In my experience, the phrase is used when what is really implied is "the perfect is the enemy of the good enough." And all too often, "good enough" implies laziness, lack of care about design, craft, the art of creation...
Simplicate, then add lightness.
I see potential for improvement in everything. Not that I go around looking for nits to pick, trying to find imperfections, but my attitude is more like "wow, that's great. I can't wait to see what they do with version 2.0! (by the way, might I suggest that they begin with...)." It's almost like everything is in a perpetual beta release.
to the engineer, the world is a toybox full of suboptimized and feature-poor toys.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
After all this time finding the areas of potential improvement in everything, I am finally closing the loop and working on my personal suboptimizations. This is about making me more feature-rich, more optimal.
