LacciMay 11
This is really important advice, especially for anyone dealing with mental health struggles or a chronic illness.
Show threadNilaJonesMay 11

@Lacci

Yes!

One of the most important things I learned in computer science major was the projects tend to get stuck at the 90% completion stage, for reasons. One of the reasons is, that's the easy part

I've taken this forward in my non-computer life, to tell myself, I will just do the easy 90%. Or sometimes the easy 70%. The rest might be nice to do, but it's not as necessary

It takes 2 minutes to wipe down the kitchen counters and get them 90% clean. The other 10% would take what, half an hour?

Show threadNatasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸May 11
@NilaJones @Lacci Unoptimized code that somehow works is still code that works. 
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@Natanox @NilaJones @Lacci

Perfect is the enemy of good enough, Mikhail Kalashnikov is reported to have once said in an interview. He wasn’t the first to think of it, though. It’s too basic common sense not to have occurred to anybody. Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible. Rebecca Solnit said that in *Hope in the Dark*. That two such dissimilar persons could independently arrive at the same conclusion speaks to its validity.

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