Is expediency tied to efficiency? Is doing things quickly for convenience too often misapplied as doing things right optimally?
Expediency stems from a desire to simplify and act swiftly, cutting through complexity: a brutal chop of the Gordian Knot; there is no time for complexity here.
Efficiency, rooted in logic, emphasizes timeliness and streamlined action—an unassailable ideal of minimal wasted effort.
This clarity of efficiency seems truthful and singular, offering a direct, obvious path, which would be sinful to obfuscate with nuance. Yet, in prioritizing speed (a subset of efficiency), we distort the present moment into an inconvenience (along with every other potential expansive revelation.)
We expedient thing is to compromise the quality outcomes for hasty execution. By over-indexed speed, we destroy the ability to appreciate (to see the value of) quality, the “right” or “holistic” way to do something.