The fight against complexity is analogous to the fight against contentment. Find contentment and you will find yourself at the end of a project. Hint: we will never be fully content. We live in a dynamic world of infinite, and never-ending change. There will always be a critique to offer. Perfection is an illusion.

We’ve all worked on projects that never seem to end. Every time you think you’re done, you realize you’re not.

There’s “one more thing” you or your client wants to add. Somehow, you get exhausted and your work suffers. Sometimes you simply burn out and move on to something else.

Why does this happen? Why do we consistently underestimate how much extra work it is to do “one more thing?”