"Good Enough": How to Lower the Bar Without Losing Quality

A familiar situation: the work is done, but you open it again and again. You change words no one will notice. You redo what already works. At some point, improvement stops improving — and the drain begins.

The "good enough" principle isn't about slacking off. It's about knowing how to pick the right bar for the task: sometimes it's high, and sometimes it's just enough for the thing to work and be closed out.

Mastering this is harder than it sounds: inside, a belief gets in the way — that "okay" is shameful, and "perfect" is the only way to respect yourself.