Are You Settling for Less?
““It’s optimizing past the point of diminishing returns.” Obviously, stop before you hit the point of diminishing returns. The problem is people stop way before reaching the point of diminishing returns but claim they’ve hit diminishing returns.” —Are your standards too low? In defense of raising the bar
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The Practice of Work (in progress)
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