Broad or precise?

Broad or precise?

Broad or precise, which do you prefer? Possibly (but not necessarily) because I’m engineer, I generally regard precision (and the requisite level of detail) as an unmitigated good thing. Not everyone has the same preference of course. It is quite striking (to me, that...
The trap of structure

The trap of structure

If you already have the structure of something—a task, a project, an issue… …it might not be the thing you most need to do. Maybe you should hand it off, or be done with it altogether. We like when we know where we are and where we’re going; when we are...