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Hmm, no. 'The perfect is the enemy of the good' is one way to sum up the law of diminishing returns, and when you're operating within fixed constraints that matters a great deal, because inefficiently allocated resources have to come from somewhere. I'm a perfectionist by inclination, but in a team environment perfectionism can manifest as tunnel vision and optimizing for a local maximum.


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