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\nThis is a bad Reman U. I mean it. It hasn\u2019t been thought through, agonized over, contemplated, speelchecked or proofreaded. I didn\u2019t have a blinding insight nor did I have one of those everyday experiences that suddenly feels like an analogy for good work\/life decisions. What I do have is a deadline, a commitment\u2026 ultimately, a promise. I would rather sign my name to a bad Reman U than break a promise. So, this is a bad Reman U\u2026 but maybe that\u2019s a good thing.
\nYou see, when I write a Reman U I start to think about the longevity of words. I think about how language is our legacy, literature is our history and the things we take the time to compose can often ripple out into eternity. And then I think, \u201cI better not sound like an idiot.\u201d And that\u2019s the crucial moment where my fingers suddenly stop, and I begin to agonize over every word. All progress halts as I struggle to make the perfect word choice\u2026
\nRecently, I was making another kind of choice, and this abrupt transition lets me tell you about it. I was configuring a new tool for my department to manage our workflow of tasks and projects, and I came to a potential sticking point. The tool I had researched and chosen to use had dozens of pre-configured project styles. Each one had plusses and minuses, and the one I chose will dictate how we work for the foreseeable future. In short, it was a decision that would impact my team, our internal customers and even our external customers. How could I make that choice but still not figure out how to end this paragraph nicely?
\nI chose the option that solved most of our current problems, even if we lost some features we currently liked. But, crucially, only after I\u2019d read the documentation on how to migrate to a different style if this one didn\u2019t suit us. Because of that, I know that even if I thought there was a chance this was the wrong choice, it was still the right choice to go forward.
\nSo far, it\u2019s worked out quite well AND it also turned out to be the wrong choice. Solving immediate problems means that we adopted it and got immediate benefits. But, we\u2019re also finding things we want next, and that will require us to convert to a different style\u2026 good thing it\u2019s so easy!<\/p>\n
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