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Nov 18, 2008

Over at In the Pipeline, Derek Lowe writes about running successful experiments by "knowing what you can afford not to worry about." Fixating on potential problems at every step of a project will mean losing focus on what's really important. "You need to understand enough to know which parts are crucial and which parts aren’t," Lowe writes. That way you can micromanage the parts that will have an effect on the outcome, while saving yourself the angst of things that won't really make a difference anyway.

 

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