I have lots of projects and processes that could be worked on endlessly. Looking for fellow alums, networking with LinkedIn, vampiring web data bases. Each of those worked on alone could absorb all the time. It’s not about perfection; it’s about a vast space that can possibly ever be covered. Argh. What happens when there are multiple of those.

I think the trick is to IDENTIFY those black holes of time. Then allocate some amount of time to be spent on that project or process.

In my mind, a project is a series of discrete steps that eventually complete. A process is a series of steps that you wish to perform each time. They are much alike hence confusion. So a project with a huge problem space (i.e., vampire an alumni database of all ~7k records) could be a time hole. So could a process of connect with every new fellow employee (an MSFT Exchange GAL).

Having accepted that there is no possibility of perfection, no possibility of completion, one must be satisfied with just good enough within limits of time available.