It's not about the tool, it's about the practice
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- 9 March 2025
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- 9 March 2025
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An obligatory post by this point. From Austin Kleon's Keep Going.
Briefly: it doesn't matter whether you have the perfect tool for the job, if you don't bother actually doing the job. Or, more empathically: you may find that what you're agonising over doesn't even matter if you're not actually doing the job.
Other people have different analogies which reflect this. Merlin Mann on his podcast "Back to Work" has referred to this often as spending all your time browsing running shoes before you've even started running. Oliver Burkeman in his work on Imperfectionism has highlighted how our tendancy towards perfectionism, towards not letting something out of your grasp until it's 100% complete, often means we never let go of things.
If you start - if you do the thing, badly, now, you can work towards better. Rinse, repeat, and gradually improve. Your practice and experience will also inform whether you actually need that tool at all.