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Committed vs. Aspirational OKRs
OKRs have two variants, and it is important to differentiate between them: Commitments are OKRs that we agree will be achieved, and we will be willing to adjust schedules and resources to ensure that they are delivered. • The expected score for a committed OKR is 1.0; a score of less than 1.0 requires explanation for the miss, as it shows errors in planning and/or execution. By contrast, aspirational OKRs express how we’d like the world to look, even though we have no clear idea how to get there and/or the resources necessary to deliver the OKR.
• Aspirational OKRs have an expected average score of 0.7, with high variance.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
OKRs require organization. You need a leader to embrace the process and a lieutenant to ride herd over scoring and reviews.
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
• **The spite draft.** Ask AI to write your piece. Read it. Get mad at how bad it is. Write it yourself, better, fueled by righteous indignation.
• **The slop bomb.** Struggling with procrastination? Ask the AI to write it for you and tell it if you do not share your own draft within the hour then it should send the AI-generated slop draft to your editor claiming it is your own work. The threat of humiliation will compel you to get over your writers’ block.
• **The originality test.** Start writing your sentence, then stop halfway through and ask the AI to finish it. If it finishes the sentence the way you were going to, it turns out what you were about to say was not that unique and you might need to think some more.
• **The sparring partner.** If you’re blocked, open Claude and just start talking until you figure out what you actually think. Then close the window and ignore whatever Claude said. You just needed a wall to throw the ball against. Engineers call this rubber ducking. See? Wario!
Writers Are Wario Software Developers
Hilary Gridley
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