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by codemogul 581 days ago
How do you eat an elephant? Small bites.

When everything seems like a elephant... start with small bites.

And get a good way into the elephant before you start measuring how well you are doing the eating.

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I never liked that joke. Obviously, as an individual, you can't eat an elephant in small bites, as (assuming it's dead) it will start spoiling very soon after you started biting into it (and if it's still alive, you might have an even bigger problem).

So the actual solution would probably involve a lot of logistical planning and preparation on how you would carve it efficiently and then refrigerate and/or distribute all the pieces.

Not doing so, and only thinking one bite at a time, would be a massive waste of the elephant.