Last night we took our daughter to urgent care. She has another ear infection! After the ear tubes have been inserted, no less. It breaks my heart when she’s sick. She is a tough cookie – you don’t really know how sick she might be. Suddenly, pus dripping from her ears. She was in good spirits once we got home, though, and promptly fell asleep.
Today, my brain wasn’t really functioning. I went to sleep late, and woke early (on account of my daughter). Maybe… 5 hours of sleep? I don’t function well with even a bit of deprivation. I’ll share the recurring thought I had, though: the 80/20 rule. Formally, the Pareto principal.
In basically any highly complex situation you’re unlikely to have all of the information, or be able to solve all of the problems. Focus on the most impactful subset of problems. If you can do 20% of the work that accounts for 80% of the impact – do that. And, don’t really think to hard about doing that. You can do the remaining 80% of the work later if you desire.
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