This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

In the quest to work less and do more, have you ever found that sometimes it seems like you're working more and doing less?

Oh, you're working your butt off? And yet, if you're making progress at all, it's minuscule.

The progress, that is.

Not your butt.

Well, maybe your butt, too.

But that's a topic for Get Fit Guy.

I've been listening to the Alanis Morissette song, Ironic.

One of the ironic things about the song, of course, is that none of these songs' examples

of irony are actually ironic.

Most are just unfortunate coincidences. Real irony is when the thing

you're doing to reach your goal is what's preventing you from reaching your goal. If you're running a

marathon and you get dehydrated and you have to stop, that's unfortunate. If you're running a

marathon and you get dehydrated because the special water bottle you bought that was supposed to

keep you extra hydrated broke, that is ironic.

Irony may be what's getting in your way.

Specifically, the irony of the premature how.

The premature how is when you choose a solution that's more complicated than the problem you're

trying to solve in the first place.

You choose your how too soon.

Hence, it's a premature how.

Early in my career, I designed and built large software systems.

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