Notes

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.…

Seed draft — replace with a real essay. On a construction job the margin is decided before the first tool comes out. It’s in the quote, the material order, the sequence of trades. Once work starts you’re mostly protecting a…

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…

Seed draft — replace with a real essay. The private version of this notebook never held me to anything. I’d write “figure out the pricing” and then not, and no one knew. Publishing changes the incentive. If I say here…