{"id":223494,"date":"2025-05-04T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/marketing\/sorting-and-choosing-seths-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:30:41","slug":"sorting-and-choosing-seths-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=223494","title":{"rendered":"Sorting and choosing | Seth&#8217;s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One is far more important than the other.<\/p>\n<p>Sorting puts our options into two piles. One pile is the don\u2019t-like, not-good-enough or wrong stack. These are the flavors we don\u2019t enjoy, the paths that are dead ends and the people we simply don\u2019t want to hang out with.<\/p>\n<p>The other pile meets spec. The other pile is good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing among the good pile makes a small difference, but getting the piles right is the hard part. 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