Excellent analytics tip #25: decrapify search, social compound metrics, from Occam’s Razor.
Everyone likes chasing big shiny objects all the time. What’s not to like. They are big. They are shiny. 🙂
But a lot of progress in life comes from doing the everyday small things better. A small improvement, every single day, to move the ball a little more forward.
A best practice I’ve developed is to take a step back and reflect on if I have a good balance between chasing shiny objects and making incremental progress on small every day things.
Today’s post is from the latter category. It is a story about dealing with a complicated everyday challenge in an incrementally better way.