2016 Postmortem

realmirage

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11. "Don't make perfect the enemy of the good"

Fri Aug 5, 2016, 02:38 PM

Aug 2016

I heard that phrase months ago and I think it's the best way to sum it up. It's one of those life lessons we all realize (or should) at some point, that life isn't perfect or even always fair but you have to find the good wherever it is and latch on to it so you can survive the day. I like the cards analogy you used.

We get to the top of the mountain not in one giant leap but in a series of steps.

"I walk slowly but I never walk backwards." - Lincoln

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An apology. [View all] VulgarPoet Aug 2016 OP

Someone utterly unqualified, but who knows they are utterly unqualified, would be much better than stevenleser Aug 2016 #1

It's like watching a frat party beginning to go wrong. VulgarPoet Aug 2016 #3

Dunning-Kruger effect ehrnst Aug 2016 #17

Proud to K and R Happyhippychick Aug 2016 #2

K & R Kaleva Aug 2016 #4

K & R emulatorloo Aug 2016 #5

totally agree retrowire Aug 2016 #6

Adding another K&R NastyRiffraff Aug 2016 #7

I was raised to own up to my assholery. VulgarPoet Aug 2016 #9

This... JSup Aug 2016 #8

Normally I would enthusiastically K and R this, but we had another of these Squinch Aug 2016 #10

"Don't make perfect the enemy of the good" realmirage Aug 2016 #11

You had me at "recalcitrant fucktrumpets." Starry Messenger Aug 2016 #12

We will work together Loki Aug 2016 #13

primaries are always hideously ugly around here. geek tragedy Aug 2016 #14

Well done! sofa king Aug 2016 #15

K&R There is more that unites us than separates us. Demsrule86 Aug 2016 #16

Meta! Iggo Aug 2016 #18

Cool. The primaries are over and we all have to get behind Clinton now. PatrickforO Aug 2016 #19

KQQL.... Historic NY Aug 2016 #20

Thank you for re-thinking your positions. We all need to move on together to defeat the real enemy. pnwmom Aug 2016 #21