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		DoingIsLearning on April 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I’ll Finish It This Week” and Other Lies I will paraphrase a former Japanese manager who taught me a lot about designing for production: "Plans will always fail but we must always have plans."

onorton on April 6, 2021 | [–]

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything" is the version I've heard.

hinkley on April 7, 2021 | [–]

All models are wrong but some are useful.

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