{"id":782,"date":"2014-04-16T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-04-16T21:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T04:34:58","slug":"the-70-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/the-70-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The 70% Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pK1G56Cqfpc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I started my career I spent hours agonizing over making something perfect. Getting that story just right. Making that ad text amazing, or revising wireframes over and over again. I didn&#8217;t want to make a mistake and I didn&#8217;t want to leave any room for complaint.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most boneheaded way to work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now I approach my work in a simpler way. &#8220;We just have to do better than what we have.&#8221; I don&#8217;t even go all the way for the 70% solution. If I can spend a few minutes to make something better than what we have the price of failure is so low and the upside is so high that you almost can&#8217;t lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started my career I spent hours agonizing over making something perfect. Getting that story just right. Making that ad text amazing, or revising wireframes over and over again. I didn&#8217;t want to make a mistake and I didn&#8217;t want to leave any room for complaint. This is the most boneheaded way to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"psp_head":"<title>The 70% Solution \u2013 Today Was Awesome<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When I started my career I spent hours agonizing over making something perfect. Getting that story just right. Making that ad text amazing, or revising wireframes over and over again. I didn&#039;t want to make a mistake and I didn&#039;t want to leave any room for complaint.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/the-70-solution\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todaywasawesomecom.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}