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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

— Seth Godin

Reflection

I would rather look foolish than be indecisive. But it's easy to stay busy doing nothing. One more spreadsheet, one more conversation, one more week to think it over. It feels responsible to keep gathering information, but sometimes what we're really doing is trying to avoid being wrong. Of course, some decisions deserve serious diligence, especially when the consequences are hard to reverse. But most of the choices we agonize over can be tested, adjusted, or undone. And waiting has a cost. I'm not advocating recklessness. I'm advocating a bias for action and the humility to course-correct when we get something wrong. At some point, the only way to learn what you need to know is to move.

Looking forward,
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