Steven Robbins here. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

I'm working on a new startup these days, job tacto.com. When you work closely with a small group,

you start to learn each other's strengths and weaknesses and habits and weirdnesses. You also start dressing alike and speaking your own private language.

I draw the line at matching tattoos, however.

The three of us all come from engineering backgrounds, so you can imagine how tactful we are.

Morning, Cat, that shirt looks awful.

Pocodots? Really? Really?

And recently, my favorite was when one of my partners

made the offhand remark. Your biggest weakness is that you're way too hung up on perfectionism.

Perfectionism. Me? Excuse me? First of all, maybe I am perfect, Miss Smarty Pants. Did you

ever think of that?

And she said it just because I wanted our graphics to look good.

They had typed a phone number using periods to separate the area code instead of dashes.

The period didn't line up correctly, so I was merely showing her how to adjust the spacing between the characters.

True, Microsoft Word makes it difficult,

so I simply bought Adobe Pagemaker, plus a new set of fonts, went through all the tutorials,

and then reproduced our graphic. This time, however, I moved the period, 370 seconds of an inch closer to the left, and the phone number looked awesome. Okay, maybe Miss Smarty Pants was right.

Maybe I got just a wee bit caught in the details.

But isn't that a good thing?

They say the devil is in the details.

Don't we owe it to future generations to find him

and make him leave the details and go to Casablanca instead?

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