The trick is to master the details that allow you to ignore most of the other details
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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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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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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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Note that Alexander only conquered half the world. There's decreasing marginal returns to detail, but they are often worth the price.

