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It's funny what sticks with you...

Lesson #1: "Too many cooks spoil the broth."

My Mom had a poster with this in the kitchen. (Looked for the image online, couldn't find the one I remember. It was 4 or 5 old Italian women in traditional garb gathered around a big kettle.) The phrase stuck with me, even though I didn't know exactly what it meant at the time. But now, having collaborated on many tasks/projects/etc, I get it. It's now one of the little sanity checks I do if something's not going quite right, I ask myself "do we have too many cooks?"

Lesson #2: "Work smarter not harder."

Got this one from a Scrooge McDuck episode. He's just starting out in life (episode was probably "how I made my millions) and working on a steamboat shoveling coal into the furnace. Sweating buckets. The Captain wants more speed (I think he was racing another boat) but Scrooge is shoveling as fast as he can. Scrooge gets inspired by the paddlewheel, scrounges up an old bike and a bunch of shovels, welds the shovel blades to the back tire rim and uses that to shoot coal into the furnace at 20x his previous speed.

This one really stuck with me. It's arguably my prime directive, if you will... I'm constantly in problem solving mode, always subconsciously alert for inefficient processes, on the lookout for a way to work smarter.

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