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Tangent: I can't recall where I first heard "plans are worthless, but planning is essential", but there's definitely some truth in it.
by chrisweekly 3y ago
Tangent: I can't recall where I first heard "plans are worthless, but planning is essential", but there's definitely some truth in it.
- mlrtime 3y agoCertainly holds true for having a baby. You can plan all you want and it is essential... however you'll quickly find out that most of your plans are in your newborns' hands.
- chrisweekly 3y agoYes! Also Mike Tyson's famous "Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face."
- madcaptenor 3y agoFor babies, everybody has a plan until they get pooped on / thrown up on.
- crucialfelix 3y agoDwight Eisenhower, who also created The Matrix.
- wting 3y agoFor clarification, "The Matrix" refers to the urgency vs importance decision matrix and not the movie: https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix https://asana.com/resources/eisenhower-matrix It's a framework to prioritize important tasks instead of falling into the agency trap, akin to prioritizing meaningful strategic tasks such as product development and tech debt instead of fighting fires.
- wting 3y agoAnother perspective is that planning is a breadth-first traversal of the solution space, and coming up with a path to the solution. When reality hits and the path is often wrong, one can switch to other paths quickly since the graph was created ahead of time. It's writing the table of contents for a book before fleshing it out. Without planning, a depth first traversal is a high risk endeavor in the likelihood that the that path is wrong but backtracking and creating the graph is comparatively expensive and susceptible to sunk cost fallacy. Depth-first traversal is writing the book a chapter at a time without a table of contents in mind.