Finding good enough

Colleague: “We don’t have a good system to do this.”
Me: “OK. Then let’s use a bad system.”

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Because we don’t always have the right tools. Or rather, we don’t always have optimal tools.

And when a task is necessary, sometimes we need to go with good-enough tools.

It’s easy to convince ourselves that sub-optimal is untenable. But often, what’s untenable is inaction for want of what’s optimal.