Overkill

It’s overkill to design for the moment after the transaction.

It’s overkill to optimize for trust instead of speed.

It’s overkill to solve the problem behind the problem.

It’s overkill to leave margin for people to think.

It’s overkill to ask what breaks when things actually work.

It’s overkill to explain decisions to people who didn’t ask.

It’s overkill to write it down so the same debate doesn’t happen twice.

It’s overkill to act as if this interaction will be remembered.

It’s overkill to behave like today’s shortcut becomes tomorrow’s pattern.

That’s how it looks to people measuring quarters.

Progress is made by people measuring decades.

And the future belongs to the ones willing to overdo it.