Really well written and so true... I think that far too often, people get intimidated by the size/scope/hairiness of a problem and try to reduce their intimidat

Really well written and so true... I think that far too often, people get intimidated by the size/scope/hairiness of a problem and try to reduce their intimidation by breaking it down. Particularly if it's a one-off problem, you're often far better just doing something. Anything. Whatever comes to mind first. Just take some sort of step. You may find that the problem isn't as hairy as you thought, and in fact just by continuing to do stuff, you solve it pretty quickly. When that's not the case, doing stuff often leads you to the kind of understanding that allows you to put in place a good plan, where just starting with planning forces you to make a bunch of incorrect assumptions that you then have to fix when actually implementing the plan you worked so hard on.