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The philosopher and educator John Dewey went a step further: “We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience.”
Here are some reflections for closing out an OKR cycle:
• Did I accomplish all of my objectives? If so, what contributed to my success?
• If not, what obstacles did I encounter?
• If I were to rewrite a goal achieved in full, what would I change?
• What have I learned that might alter my approach to the next cycle’s OKRs?
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Delivering an MVP does not mean that the product is bad, simple, incompetent. Do not confuse unfinished with bad, simple with simplistic, incomplete with incompetent. The MVP should be feasible (to be created), easily usable, generate a lot of value and be awesome—“wow!”
Lean Inception
Paulo Caroli
• **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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