Expecting a joke from the title ? ok… There you are !  Got two reports today: one was a novel, the other a tweet. Neither told me what I needed, but

Two Reports Walk into My Inbox...

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2024-11-18 06:00:03

Expecting a joke from the title ? ok… There you are ! Got two reports today: one was a novel, the other a tweet. Neither told me what I needed, but at least one killed fewer trees. Today is one of those days where the inbox is a battlefield. But I wanted to take a break for a quick Sunday post :)

This evening, within the span of an hour, two investor reports arrived in my inbox, one from each side of the spectrum. The first was a beast… Pages upon pages of numbers, graphs, projections, all beautifully formatted but utterly overwhelming. I spent a few minutes scrolling before realising that I would need a full afternoon and a shovel to make sense of it.

Then came the second report. This one was the polar opposite. A single page, sparse to the point of being skeletal. Revenue was “up,” costs were “steady,” and they were “excited for the next quarter.” That was it. It left me with nothing to grasp, no foothold to dig deeper or even ask a useful question.

Both were frustrating in their own ways. The first made me feel like I was drowning; the second, like I was parched in a desert. Neither hit the mark, and as I stared at the screen, I couldn’t help but think: this isn’t just about reporting. It’s about how we approach everything—work, decisions, relationships. We sometimes tend to overdo or underdo, rarely striking that elusive balance.

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