know what not to cut when cutting what isn’t essential
Pixels squeeze out of photos. Same picture. Smaller file. Not everything is important to the aim. Music compresses with the notes it loses. The song remains the same. Such is the science behind the art of leaving out unnecessary parts.
A best-friend critiques your love life. A doctor discusses diet. A manager takes pulse of the campaign. Eye to the goal, focused on the whole. Each assessing what to cut to compress the spaces in your upper-case goals. Leaner, lighter, smoother, faster.
Still I keep ice cream in the freezer. Not a support beam in the wall of my day—it’s a splash of paint. A garnish, not dinner. In the quest to compress, I’m careful to know what not to cut. Know what pays rent to lower-case goals; as effective, less expensive.
