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Play your own game

1,000 days of logging my life

The tyranny of reviews

Advice and indignation

Quantity over quality

The upside of over-engineering

Nuke your lists

You don't need permission

How belief bends reality

Get comfortable with discomfort

Delegate without apology

The beauty of boring

Pattern recognition

The work itself

Escape velocity

Not awful enough

Do nothing, on purpose

Who's in charge?

Pick a plan, any plan

The work itself

Knowing where the ground is

The prize trap

Give it away

Don't look at the tray

Raising the stakes

It's okay for work to feel like work

Spreadsheet logic

No one knows what they're doing

Possibility exposure

Hard or complicated?

Familiar yet stunning

The laundry chair

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