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A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his ultimate goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’

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• Low Costs, Small Company, Enough Customers


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• Rewriting Basecamp & Fighting Software Bloat


• Why "Enough" Beats Growth


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• The "So What?" Mindset


• Staying Close to Customers


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Notice what all of these use cases have in common: they’re meta-work. Work about work. Organization about organization. The person using Claude to analyze their weekly logs for “productivity leaks” has found a sophisticated new way to avoid doing the thing in favor of doing the things about the thing.

When an artist is stuck, Rick Rubin writes in The Creative Act , “one of the best strategies is to lower the stakes.” He explains, “We tend to think that what we’re making is the most important thing in our lives and that it’s going to define us for all eternity. Consider moving forward with the more accurate point of view that it’s a small work.”... See more

“You have to construct your tomorrow today.”