the.com/finishing touch
The last 2% of effort that gets 50% of the credit.
means The last small addition or adjustment that completes something and makes it feel done.
from A straightforward phrase from 'touch' meaning a light stroke of skill, as a painter or craftsman applies — the literal final touch of the brush or hand that completes a piece of work. In use since at least the 1700s, it carried over from physical craftsmanship (finishing a painting, a piece of furniture) into general use for any last perfecting detail.
- law of diminishing
- violates it, somehow gets noticed most
- timing
- always comes when you want to stop
- risk
- one more tweak and you ruin it