<![CDATA["the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad]]>"the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/6c70cedf-9426-499e-b97f-9220959562f0/the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good-keeps-being-a-phrase-meaning-shut-up-and-accept-the-badRSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 10:59:52 GMTSun, 24 May 2026 17:01:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Mon, 25 May 2026 00:30:11 GMT]]>@pkraus @davidgerard @NFDI
Exactly. It doesn't have to be perfect. It does have to be done.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jannem/statuses/116632388315387524https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/jannem/statuses/116632388315387524Mon, 25 May 2026 00:30:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Mon, 25 May 2026 00:16:03 GMT]]>@tobinbaker In what way is Chesterton's Fence “thought-terminating”? @davidgerard

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/krans/statuses/116632332734240929https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/krans/statuses/116632332734240929Mon, 25 May 2026 00:16:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Mon, 25 May 2026 00:07:52 GMT]]>@davidgerard @tobinbaker

This is Sunday evening, stop making me think about work.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/zygmyd/statuses/116632300570261776https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/zygmyd/statuses/116632300570261776Mon, 25 May 2026 00:07:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Mon, 25 May 2026 00:04:47 GMT]]>@tobinbaker "perhaps it's *load bearing* obvious fuckery, did you think of *that* huh"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116632288489077474https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116632288489077474Mon, 25 May 2026 00:04:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 23:39:47 GMT]]>@davidgerard ditto "Chesterton's fence", thought-terminating cliche

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/tobinbaker/statuses/116632190152943296https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/tobinbaker/statuses/116632190152943296Sun, 24 May 2026 23:39:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 22:03:20 GMT]]>@davidgerard Which is an unfortunate perversion of how it SHOULD be used, but alas only to be expected in the tech bro slop era…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/arcadiagt5/statuses/116631810896010266https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/arcadiagt5/statuses/116631810896010266Sun, 24 May 2026 22:03:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 21:56:47 GMT]]>@davidgerard My response is usually "but this isn't even good".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/ap/users/115702352497105111/statuses/116631785139418360https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/ap/users/115702352497105111/statuses/116631785139418360Sun, 24 May 2026 21:56:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 20:37:02 GMT]]>@davidgerard It also implies that someone is looking for perfection, framing them as entirely unreasonable. I'm not looking for perfection. I'd settle for a lot of things that weren't overrun by fucking fascists. But no, some asshole has to try and shut down the conversation before we even get to addressing that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://reclusive.blog/users/sharpcheddargoblin/statuses/01KSDV95V9WJXP12BS21X0XKVWhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://reclusive.blog/users/sharpcheddargoblin/statuses/01KSDV95V9WJXP12BS21X0XKVWSun, 24 May 2026 20:37:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 19:53:47 GMT]]>@davidgerard well, I'm not a mind reader (or have blue sky or whatnot to see what you refer to), but no, I can imagine plenty of cases where you're technically right on this one.

It's just that I really like the phrase and find it useful to get things "out of committee" so to speak. You should come and join a @NFDI conference some time to find how traumatizing endless looking for perfection perfected to a T can be 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/pkraus/statuses/116631301511904515https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/pkraus/statuses/116631301511904515Sun, 24 May 2026 19:53:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 18:26:22 GMT]]>@davidgerard "Don't let the good be the enemy of the literally the second worst possible situation"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com/users/decay/statuses/01KSDKSXDW6GKATBH77XR2HS4Ahttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com/users/decay/statuses/01KSDKSXDW6GKATBH77XR2HS4ASun, 24 May 2026 18:26:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:28:52 GMT]]>@jripley i had about ten threads in mind and mostly on bluesky lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630731683360584https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630731683360584Sun, 24 May 2026 17:28:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:12:35 GMT]]>@davidgerard good enough is when a 20 bucks bottle of wine gets you 95% to where that 110 bucks bottle gets you.

With technology especially code 90% solutions aren't good enough.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116630667642873965https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116630667642873965Sun, 24 May 2026 17:12:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:07:34 GMT]]>@davidgerard The replies in that thread, and its spinoff threads, are like someone is crowdsourcing “Give examples of bad faith calls-to-inaction”

[Edit: More generally, it’s like the “But you live in society” guy popping out in everyone’s mentions]

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jripley/statuses/116630647873868880https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jripley/statuses/116630647873868880Sun, 24 May 2026 17:07:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:05:43 GMT]]>@pkraus i must ask: did you seriously think that's anything like what i'm talking about?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630640632785152https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630640632785152Sun, 24 May 2026 17:05:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:05:31 GMT]]>@davidgerard Particularly when "this works to the absolute minimum extent that our lawyers can win the court cases" is the target quality level and time to move on to the next project.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116630639851889522https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discordian.social/users/RogerBW/statuses/116630639851889522Sun, 24 May 2026 17:05:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:03:35 GMT]]>@davidgerard as a supervisor of PhD students, trust me, there's such a thing as "it's good enough, just write the thing already" 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/pkraus/statuses/116630632207376326https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://berlin.social/users/pkraus/statuses/116630632207376326Sun, 24 May 2026 17:03:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "the perfect is the enemy of the good" keeps being a phrase meaning shut up and accept the bad on Sun, 24 May 2026 17:02:14 GMT]]>i could contrive other use cases, but

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630626902901664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://circumstances.run/users/davidgerard/statuses/116630626902901664Sun, 24 May 2026 17:02:14 GMT