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Perfectionism Is a Form of Dishonesty (opens the original)
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I learned today’s lesson during my first year of high school.Our history teacher assigned us a paper on nineteenth-century Europe, a subject I loved. She gave us no firm deadline.I was thrilled. Within two days, I had written forty pages, and they were good.But good did not feel good enough, so I kept improving them.I added sources. Strengthened connections. Expanded arguments. Then I opened an entirely new section.Meanwhile, everyone else handed in their papers.Two weeks after my classmates had
Every yes is a loan against your future self (opens the original)
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A new colleague was developing a habit: dropping by my office for help, “just a minute.”A month ago she caught me at a bad moment. I told her I couldn’t help her right then, and that I’d rather she checked with me before coming over. She pushed back: it was just a minute. So I said it: I don’t have time right now for your fifteen-minute minutes.She left a little annoyed. Ever since, she has asked me first.Saying yes would have been easier. One small yes, zero friction, everyone smiles. But she w
You don't need more information. You need a deadline (opens the original)
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You’ve read enough. You know you have.The tabs you have open right now are not research. Research ended when the new articles started telling you things you already knew. What you’re doing now is grazing: consuming information about the decision as a substitute for the decision.One more comparison. One more review. One more opinion, just to be sure.But the next article probably won’t tell you anything new. It will tell you the same things in a different order, and you’ll read it anyway, because
Your personality is just a habit you stopped questioning (opens the original)
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Somebody asks why you never speak up in meetings. Why you always say yes. Why you plan everything twice and start nothing. And you give the answer that ends the conversation:That’s just how I am.And you think that solves something.I had a boss with a badly regulated temper. He’d lose it often, shout, punch the table. Imagine that: he was also six feet tall, which didn’t help. Then, after, sometimes even the next day, he’d say: “sorry, that’s just how I am.”I can assure you that, for the rest of
Prompting is the new typing (opens the original)
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In 1985, typing fast was a career skill. People put it on résumés. Companies tested for it before hiring. Then everyone learned to type, and the skill didn’t disappear. It did something worse: it became invisible. Nobody gets hired for typing anymore. They get rejected for not typing.That’s the trajectory of every access skill, and prompting is sprinting down it right now.Share
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