Category: Systems

  • Checklists beat willpower

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    Seed draft — replace with a real essay. I used to rely on wanting to do the work. Some days that’s there and some days it isn’t, and a business can’t run on the days it happens to be there. A checklist doesn’t care how I feel. It just says: these six things, in this… Read →

  • The first system I built for the music label

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    Seed draft — replace with a real essay. The music label was drowning in one task: writing prompts. Every track needs one, I wanted ten tracks a day, and hand-writing each prompt meant I never got past three. The bottleneck wasn’t creativity. It was throughput. So the first real system wasn’t clever. It was a… Read →