Complicated vs straightforward

Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you’re making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to make the straightforward decision? – James Clear

This is the very definition of bullshit work/jobs. Tasks that keep you busy, but really just theatre to hide the lack of courage from the organisation’s leadership. Worked in enough large organisations in private and public sector to have experienced that for myself.

But we’re not immune to it even while being self-employed.

It’s easier to build new features than to do marketing.

It’s easier to optimize your tooling than to fix the boring bug that’s bothering your customers.

It’s easier to chase shiny objects saying you need to jump on the trending opportunities, than to grind on something with potential, for months and years.

It’s easier to spend hours on Twitter chitchatting non stop, engaging in rage bait and drama, saying you need to build an audience, while your customers are not even on it.

It’s easier to do anything else in order to avoid the very thing—often uncomfortable thing—that truly moves the needle.

Most of the time, things are straightforward.
We use complication to procrastinate, to avoid.

And our own minds are the easiest to fool.