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Do you guys remember that scene in the L Word where the hot carpenter and Bette are about to cheat, but first the hot carpenter lays down some budgetary guidelines for her contractual work?
I think about this scene everyday, and it’s not because the hot carpenter was daringly styled in overalls 12 years before they staged a comeback.
It’s because of that little triangle she draws:
Good, Cheap, Fast: pick 2.
She tells Bette that when it comes to construction of Art Gallery Things (I can’t remember what she supposed to be building, by the way. A really big frame? The Seeds of their Torrid Affair?) she can only have 2 of the 3 points on the triangle.
What a declaration!
I am pretty sure the rest of the scene is about how this triangle might apply to lesbian sex.
But the reason I think about this scene every single day is because it applies just as much to organizing strategy as it does to building art things, or whatever the hot carpenter was supposed to be doing.
In my experience, when you’re doing meaningful organizing you’ve automatically selected “Cheap” as your 1st option.
I am very passionate about people doing fewer things in organizing and…
