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Perfect is the enemy of good

• rakoo 5y ago
  Temporarily embarassed movie stars
  • gryn 5y ago
    Ah, The cousins of the Temporarily embarrassed Billionaires/Entrepreneurs.
    • DoreenMichele 5y ago
      No reason one can't be both at the same time.
    • barbazoo 5y ago
      Is that some kind of meme that I missed the inception of? I've seen that "temporarily embarrassed ..." a couple of times in the last week.
      • abcanthur 5y ago
        Refers to a John Steinbeck quote, "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
        • jdminhbg 5y ago
          Steinbeck never actually said this. The closest he came (“temporarily embarrassed capitalists”) is actually in a description of the socialist movement itself, not its opponents: https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/commonly-misquoted-socialism-never-took-root-in/amp https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/com...
          • Supermancho 5y ago
            > is actually in a description of the socialist movement itself, While, overall, Steinbeck said something different, your description of the intent is incorrect. "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist." - This can only make sense when attributed to capitalists (believers in it) regardless of what systems they are currently participating in. This is a subtle description of human nature at large, which is why it's so memorable.
            • jdminhbg 5y ago
              No, this is wrong. The context for “we” is “most of the so-called Communists I met.” He is describing the people in the movement as temporarily embarrassed capitalists. It is the opposite of the apocryphal quote, which has Steinbeck positing that the reason the movement is unsuccessful as it being opposed by the temporarily embarrassed millionaires who should have embraced it.
              • Supermancho 5y ago
                > No, this is wrong. My interpretation is not. > most of the so-called Communists I met > Steinbeck positing that the reason the movement is unsuccessful as it being opposed by the temporarily embarrassed millionaires > This can only make sense when attributed to capitalists (believers in it) regardless of what systems they are currently participating in <--- ie Communist support or however you want to constrain it The same phrasing you repeated, reiterates my point. Good luck with whatever.
• webnrrd2k 5y ago
  "Anything worth doing well is worth doing half-assed" I remind myself of that a lot -- it's easy to overanalyze and then architecture astro-not myself into doing nothing
  • mauvehaus 5y ago
    Or as Patton put it: A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan next week.