"Boil the Ocean"
Say this instead: try to do too much at once
How "Boil the Ocean" shows up at work
A useful warning when a project scope has quietly grown from "fix the checkout flow" to "rebuild the entire customer experience platform." Typically delivered by someone who has lived through a similar project and watched it stall for eighteen months.
We don't need to boil the Ocean here; let's just fix the onboarding step.
We don't need to try to do too much at once; let's just fix the onboarding step.
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