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Use the Right Tool for the Job

Image copyright (c) by James Aiken My wife and I have a fun dynamic: she approaches situations with surgical precision, while I tend to be more of an imprecise paintbrush like you would imagine was used in the painting you see here. One day, she chastised me one day for cutting something with a butter knife and insisted that I should be using a paring knife instead.  I argued that it wasn't needed. Who was right? As you can imagine, I was intentionally vague with the description of the situation above so that I could illustrate that an understanding of the context is required to answer it properly.  In this particular situation, I already had the knife out from making my daughter a sandwich for her lunchbox and had switched to cutting strawberries.  So, technically, she was correct, but I was also able to properly execute my task with the tool at hand, literally. This loosey-goosey approach to executing a process works in some situations, but in others it should be avoide