Amazon has a famous 70% rule, that most decisions should be made with 70% of the information you wish you had.

· Bits and Bobs 10/9/23

There's an asymptotic curve of usefulness of information vs cost to get it.

If you're waiting to get to 90% you're waiting too long and investing too much effort.

More information feels superficially like it's always a good idea, but not once you incorporate the cost of getting it, it's much less clear.

If your comment in a doc reduces to "Can we double-click on this to be extra sure?" consider that you might be actively detracting value.

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