In any project or endeavour, you can only optimise for 2 out of the following 3 options:
- Price
- Speed
- Quality
You can get something done cheap and fast, but it’ll be poor quality.
You can get something done fast and well, but it’ll cost you.
You can get something done well and cheap, but it’ll take time.
Perhaps our biggest challenge is to realise and accept that we can’t have it all; that perfection is unattainable.
Perhaps the trade-off liberates us, by forcing us to decide what is most important.
Perhaps the constraint is what we need for magic, creativity, and resourcefulness to emerge.