You can spend dollars to create more widgets, or you can spend dollars to build a factory to create more widgets, which in the short run doesn't create any widgets at all. From a personal perspective, you have to balance between taking care of the tasks and goals of today (P), and spend time [[Sharpen your saw|sharpening your saw]] (PC). In a company perspective, you have to balance between shipping stuff (P) and hiring people, training, doing offsites (PC). The exact correct balance changes from circumstance to circumstance, but the first step is the recognition that there *needs* to be a balance. Absent of that, it becomes the "we can't stop for gas, we're already too late" fallacy. #published 2025-02-16