Comment by treetalker

I'm not in tech, but in my experience, I've gotten furthest in the directions of my goals, and my best results, by:

- keeping in mind the direction I want to advance, but

- determining which activities I should repeat every day to move in that direction,

- executing those activities consistently (every day) and regularly (according to rules/principles, as I learn/discover them), and

- gradually refining that execution with practice.

To me, it feels a bit like walking across your house in the dark: you know where you'd like to go, but you can only feel your way there a step at a time, you run into things, but you course-correct and keep moving forward.

Keep it simple.

Some paraphrases:

Tyson: Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth. (A PERT chart with hundreds of nodes, planned in advance, is almost certain to fall apart.)

Patton: A good plan, violently executed now.

Von Clausewitz: The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.