Three challenges in big projects

The hard part about building big projects, isn’t usually the bigness of it.

It’s usually one of three other things:

One: Our ability to see a path to the result that will actually work. Ill-defined paths lead to nowhere, as so many well-intended ideas have discovered.

Two: Our ability to chunk the work down into digestible pieces, so that we can actually move meaningfully toward the goal, instead of getting stuck.

Three: Our ability to stay motivated for long enough to get there.

That’s all.

There’s no fourth.

Take care of those three, and htey’ll take care of the rest.