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Long time ago a friend copied some albums onto minidisk for me. When I played them I saw that he had named each album and track fully. This would have been don
by bloopernova 4y ago
Long time ago a friend copied some albums onto minidisk for me.
When I played them I saw that he had named each album and track fully. This would have been done by manually choosing each letter using the arrow keys on the remote. It would have taken many hours to do this very tedious task.
When I expressed my amazement and thanks, he shrugged and said something that stuck with me ever since:
"If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well."
- Anon84 4y agoThere's a better version of that last sentence: "If it's worth doing, it's word doing poorly" In other words, if it's worth doing, it's worth struggling through the many frustrating failures until you can do it well. Otherwise, you might get put off by not being able to do it "well"
- hacknewslogin 4y agoI also took it as "even if the end result isn't perfect, having it done is better than not doing it at all." It has helped a lot with my hesitation to start projects.
- aristofun 4y agoWorld stands on people like this. Unfortunately there are so few of us :)