I have a rule that has served me better than any other, and it is not a noble one.
Done beats perfect.
I learned it by doing the opposite. I have sat on things for months trying to get them exactly right, and the only thing that achieved was that the thing never got made at all. So now I would rather put out the 80% version than nothing.
I thought about that again this morning, for a different reason.
A lot of men are waiting to be sure before they do anything about their prostate. Sure what the test means. Sure what happens if it finds something. Sure they are ready for the answer.
The trouble is that the thing they are waiting to be certain about does not hold still. What happens to a man found with the slow kind of prostate cancer is not what happened in 2010. It changed while people were waiting to feel ready, and the waiting taught them nothing.
You will never know enough. Nobody does. I do not, and I have been at this sixteen years.
So do the 80% version. Write down one question and take it in with you: if this comes back low risk, what exactly would you watch, how often, and what would make you change the plan?
What have you been waiting to feel ready for?