Simon Joliveau Breney

The conventional strategy for subtraction is to do it by default: Procrastinate on everything that isn’t a priority. Rebel against the escalating commitments on your time. Opt out and ignore.

Each plan also has an increasing number of hero features :

• 5 for Starter

• 6 for Professional

• 8 for Organization

• 10 for Enterprise

I’ve actually tested those numbers of features - and that’s exactly what performs best .

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What you don’t want to happen is unsustainable stress, or for people to not share failure or tell you when you’re wrong. So you need to actively fight this as the leader by: a) asking for dissent (“does everyone agree this is the right path? Does anyone disagree”? and letting a silence hang until someone speaks) b) reward debate. If someone dissent

Learning and meta-learning are intertwined, so the less we know about a subject, the less we know about how that subject is organized. This leads to our first principle: before embarking on any new learning project, try to figure out how other people organize efforts to learn it. What do those people see as the major divisions in skill, knowledge a

Framing the task as high-stakes or important can encourage the AI to “try harder.”

• Before : Provide a detailed analysis of .

• After : Imagine you are preparing a report for the executive team. Provide a detailed analysis of .

With thoughtfulness and shared effort, the plan will come together and be ready to share with the entire company. This should be a moment of celebration. With the help of all of the leaders across the organization, and with all of the information at your disposal, you’ve come up with the best possible plan. Share the vision, the strategy, and the e

I quickly learned that it was easier for me to focus on work in the hours before lunch, so when I found myself struggling with a not-so-hard task late in the day, I’d give myself permission to quit and pick it up again in the morning. Almost every time, I’d breeze through and finish in a fraction of the time it would’ve taken me the previous night.