The useful constraint
On putting walls around your work, on purpose.
This month: Foundations
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Lately on the wick
The sunk cost you live in
On staying somewhere long after the reason for staying has expired.
The single source of truth
The quiet cost of keeping things in more than one place.
The problem with best practices
Borrowed solutions to someone else's problem.
The dead hand of defaults
Most of how you live was decided before you thought to ask.
Writing things down
Not for memory. For thinking.
Why constraints clarify
On the counterintuitive freedom that comes from working within limits.
The 2-minute rule, revisited
David Allen's rule works. But it's teaching you something bigger.
On commitment and optionality
Why keeping your options open might be the most expensive choice you make.
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