The restraint to leave it alone
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The Quiet Craft

The restraint to leave it alone

Chapter 2
There is a point in every piece of work where further effort stops improving it and starts merely changing it. Most people cannot feel that point, so they either stop far short of it or sail well past. Stopping is running out of time. Finishing is deciding the thing now does what it was for, and that the next change would be for you rather than for it. The tell is who the change serves. If you cannot name a reader it helps, you are decorating.
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