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The Pick Your Battles Operating System
Will's personal life philosophy, applied to product decisions.
How it works
- 1The perfect is the enemy of the good.
- 2The last 20 percent of polish costs 80 percent of the time.
- 3In an AI world, that final 20 percent still often requires a human.
- 4The discipline is knowing when the last 20 percent matters and when 90 percent is the right place to stop.
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