Don't Try
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Argues for favoring effortlessness over extra effort: stop overplanning and analysis paralysis by shipping early, break things and build recovery instead of endless documentation, and treat reliability goals with reversion to the mean — estimate conservatively and sandbag estimates so ordinary failures don’t get punished. Avoid volunteering unpaid work in meetings (don’t become the homework person). Use a rope-a-dope approach: make others exhaust themselves, then apply the minimal effort needed to win.
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