Perfect is indeed the enemy of good

The desire to do things well stops us doing them at all.

I re-connected with someone on linked-in the other week. (Yes, I actually use it like that). And he sent a lovely, long detailed reply. One that I was delighted to read. One that I want to reply to.

But I haven’t.

Anytime someone sends me a nice, long, structured message, on pretty much any medium, it falls into the awful silo of “well i need to sit down and write a nice reply”.

And it stays in that silo, along with all the other things like that.

So instead, I’ll write a little blog post about not being able to write, using up some of my daily word-quota in the process, and making the writing of the reply, even less likely.