Something I am reminded of every so often is my propensity to dabble in perfectionism. I think we all do it to a certain degree it just depends on what we care about. It is in this ‘dabbling’ that I can sometimes find myself getting pulled into a time-suck–a kind of bubble of perfection. I was reminded of this today when I came across a blog post that talked about the difference between perfection and excellence. I think the author, Nick Rice, has hit the nail on the head.
For me this comes up with regard to any programming I may have to do. It is never that the code does not work properly, that is a given, it works. Rather its making sure that the code is indented and formatted correctly. Spending time on making sure that everything is beautiful. Really who is going to see the underlying code? Some other code monkeys perhaps, but 99.99% of people could care less about that. In fact, they don’t even know about the code under a website. People have other things to worry about rather than the perfectly syntactic code that is providing a lovely web experience. This is just one area that this tendency shows up for me, but there are others. I’m sure if you examine your own habits you can find a few yourself.
So why spend time fretting over the unnecessary? You can do excellent work without driving yourself crazy.
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