The Lazy Perfectionist

Never design anything that’s not a precise, minimal answer to a problem we can identify and have to solve.

The Lazy Perfectionist spends his idle time observing others and identifying problems that are worth solving. He looks for agreement on those problems, always asking, “What is the real problem?” Then he moves, precisely and minimally, to build (or get others to build) a usable answer to one problem. He uses, or gets others to use, those solutions. And he repeats this until there are no problems left to solve, or time or money runs out.

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