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- Author: James Clear
- Full Title: 3-2-1: New Paths, the Danger of Complexity, and Making Fast Decisions - [email protected] - Gmail
- URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBjtMxfJlmGKBNvWQxJPQqKm
Highlights
Simple is nearly always better. But if it’s going to be complicated, then make sure the problem is worth the complexity. A great deal of time is wasted creating complex solutions to relatively unimportant problems.review
Computer programmer Ward Cunningham on the importance of making fast, reversible decisions: “I can’t tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don’t matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.”review