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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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    The trick is to master the details that allow you to ignore most of the other details

    4:26 PM - 26 Sep 2020
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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        One of the first engineering books I read, and this was in high school, was “The sayings of Shigeo Shingo” in which he talks about conscientious workmen doing delicate, precise work to ensure quality where sloppy ones screwed up. His solution was to put micrometers at stations...

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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        That allowed the sloppy ones to do work just as good as conscientious ones. A micrometer allows sloppy people to make precise measurements. The instinct is to reward attention to detail where the trick is to make it unnecessary.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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        Says something that that’s the one detail from an entire book of aphoristic wisdom that I’ve retained for 30 years... about making details irrelevant. If anything calls for extreme prowess in achieving a delicate balance of 10 variables, chances are there’s a detail-bog there.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 26
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        Measure, fix, hold, add leverage... you can usually build a scaffolding to reduce that delicate balance of 10 things with 1 coarse detail that’s just on/off. Cutting the Gordian knot is the story of mastering the one detail that matters.

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      2. oo.‏ @oogali Sep 26
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        I was just thinking that very thing: a lot of life comes down to sampling the giant stream of events, and honing in on the right sampling criteria so you’re not overwhelmed with the rest.

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      3. Preston Sparks, B.S.‏ @_PrestonSparks_ Sep 26
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        That you were just thinking this is very weird but very cool

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      1. Matt Fitzgerald‏ @matfitz Sep 26
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        Expertise is knowing what to ignore

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