Half-assing it with everything you've got
From Replacing Guilt, “Half-assing it with everything you’ve got”:
The slacker in you rebels against pointless tasks, and the tryer in you wants perfection. So satisfy both: aim for the minimum necessary target, and move there as efficiently as possible.
This post in the [[Replacing Guilt, Soares]]N series is about the difference between the “quality line” and the “preference curve”.