Insufficiency is Not Enough

This is not a story about grit or perseverance. It’s about how the tiniest, dumbest mistake can unravel our best-laid plans. Col trained for ten years to master Frisbee. Then forgot to bring water. You’re a seasoned speaker with a dazzling slide deck. But forgot your clicker. I’m mid-zoom with 150 people, nailing my presentation. Then my hard drive ran out of space. Col reckons The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a blog post dressed in a trenchcoat. If it inspires a simple checklist that saves my blushes, it can dress however it wants. Sometimes, the thing that stops you isn’t the big challenge you prepared for. It’s the basic thing you forgot. In the mid 00s our mate Bails designed himself a coat of arms. The ornate slogan underneath has lived in my head rent free ever since. Insufficiency is Not Enough.