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In Praise of Doing One Thing Well

A short defense of narrow focus in a culture obsessed with range.

Priya Shah
Priya Shah

April 28, 2024 · 4 min read

In Praise of Doing One Thing Well

Somewhere along the way, doing one thing well started to look like a lack of ambition, and doing many things adequately started to look like range.

The tools, restaurants and people we return to most, though, are rarely the ones trying to be everything. They're the ones that decided, early and clearly, what they were not going to be.