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One of the problems with working on what matters is that 'what matters' isn't always apparent in the moment. Things that seem enormously important in the moment
by sumanthvepa 4y ago
One of the problems with working on what matters is that 'what matters' isn't always apparent in the moment. Things that seem enormously important in the moment, may turn out to be unimportant in the long term. While it is important to work on 'important' things, do spend at least some time on 'unimportant' things. Those may turn out to be more valuable than you think.
- 13of40 4y agoThe way I would put it is when you think about a REST API, for example, the tendency is to see the sum of the methods in it as 'what matters'. But shipping is actually the sum of source control, the deployment story, development experience, compliance, quality gates, etc., and finally the methods themselves. What you don't want to do is hyper-focus on the last bit and think you're going to catch up on the rest as an afterthought.
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- wawjgreen 4y agoi agree 100%. it is not easy to decide what is ultimately important, but there are cases that this is so.
- tambourine_man 4y agoExactly, came here to say the same. Even when I know that something matters, there are many other things that also do and choosing between them has been a lifelong challenge. If you do know what matters the most undoubtedly, why would you do anything else? The hard part is the knowing.