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Perfect is the enemy of good, as they say
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2026
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Seek perfection for pleasure, i.e. when you are engaging in a hobby.
Everything else, good enough is enough.
I've said basically to my boss at the shitty megacorp like "if I go out of my way to fix things and do more work, I get the same outcome as not doing any of that. You don't give me paid holidays. You pay entry level wages. We both know I'm going to be laid off in December. So why would I?"
Capitalist hell-scape. Working to make some unseen ghouls rich.
When I went out of my way to fix things and make it better, I ended up getting promotions, but YMMV.
The way it worked for me:
Go out of my way to make things better -> get promotion and pay raise -> go out of my way to make things better again -> no promotion or pay raise -> do the absolute bare minimum -> big pay raise
Maybe they thought I enjoyed improving processes just to do it and saw it takes money to keep me doing it once I stopped.
Or maybe the forces that determine whether I get more money are beyond my understanding.
I just got a bit of praise and more work
And everyone clapped too
Just barely good enough is perfect. Anything more is a waste.
The goal of engineering isn't adding everything possible. It's taking everything possible away while still accomplishing the goal. This applies just as well to life.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
As in, if it's worth doing you don't need to do it right, or perfect. I just needs to get done.
Did this person reply to herself, or just her own doppelgänger?
Noted advice columnist Carolyn Hax is not replying to herself lol
I was once studying for an anatomy exam with one of the smartest people I've ever met.
At around four hours into the session we convinced ourselves that there were four kinds of muscle, and then started checking the book for the fourth kind.
100% effort sabotaged us.
I'm more of a do it right or don't do it at all kind of person. There's no point in creating more work.
That's kind of the beauty of this post though. Half assing something isn't necessarily doing something wrong. "Good enough" is usually just that, and further effort is a waste.
Unless the definition of half assing has changed it's not doing it good enough. It usually just means the work will have to be done again in the near future because it was done poorly the first time.