Done and simple beats perfect and complicated. Every business needs someone who can read what its numbers are saying: where it stands, what's working and what to adjust. Knowing the numbers matters. So does getting the message out.
Today I planned a clever setup to share something useful. I spent the evening chasing the pieces it needed, and it still wasn't ready. So I pivoted early and let it go. One clear message, one simple link, and the extra words taken off. Then it was ready to share.
The clever version felt like progress. The simple version was progress. What's left after cutting back is usually what mattered all along.
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
