the difference between slightly less of something than you need and slightly more of something that you need is qualitative.

it's a phase change. it's very different from the quantitative change between less than you need and slightly more but still not enough

or between slightly more than you need and even more.

when you don't have to constantly back ground resource manage, when you have a little bit of slack in the system to allow movement, there's an ease, a fluidity that emerges, like ice melting.

like the thaw