Tip: when your solution contains "just (do something)", it's never that simple.
Those two things are separate and we often get them confused, when things are hard, we think it must be more complex than it is, which is not usually the case.
Just do the thing is a lot more powerful than people realize. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. But it is often simple.
"Just" always hide a lack of knowledge. Of the problem, of the environment, of the team, of what the future will be.
sometimes when a group gets "wrapped around the axle" and the proposed thing is spiraling out of control (usually due to hallucinated requirements or group anxiety feeding on itself), "Just <simple option>" is EXACTLY what is needed, especially from a confident leader.
> If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just...” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At no time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
https://squareallworthy.tumblr.com/post/163790039847/everyon...
Advising people that all they had to do is outlast everyone and that was easy because everyone else quit.
They didn't seem to understand the difference between simple and easy, when I mentioned that was the hard part and the reason everyone else was quitting was because it was hard, there response was that 'they just needed discipline, which is easy'.
So glad we have genius level thinking out there that has solved all of life's issues.