Do it right or explain why it’s wrong
2 min readJul 25, 2021
When you’re working on something, you have two choices: do it right, or take time later to explain why it was done incorrectly. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said:
It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
This came to mind when reading a recent post from Kevin Paul Scott, where he explained why that might be easier said than done:
