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Borrowing Knowledge

Most of us are operating on more borrowed knowledge than we realize. The frameworks we've absorbed, the terminology we've picked up, the concepts we reference because we've heard them referenced—these give us fluency. Fluency is genuinely useful. But fluency isn't understanding, and the gap between the two is easy to miss because the fluency feels so much like comprehension.

The Focus You Fear

There's a difference between working on something and being in something, and I think the difference is time. It's not necessarily clock time, it's accumulated attention.

The Operator's Guide to Morning Pages

I've been recommending something to the leaders I coach that sounds almost too simple to be useful: twenty minutes of longhand writing, first thing in the morning.

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