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Occam's Razor: • Simple assumptions are more likely to be correct than complex assumptions. Avoid Occam's Duct Tape: • Someone who approaches a problem with a ridiculously large number of assumptions.

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@george__mack on Twitter

As a manager, your time is precious and finite, so guard it like a dragon guards its treasure stash. If you trust that the right outcomes will happen without you, then you don’t need to be there.

The Making of a Manager

Julie Zhuo

The problem that comes up over and over again is that these people want to be published. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You’ll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them. There is a door we all want to walk through, and writing can help you find it and open it. Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won’t do any of those things; you’ll never get in that way.

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

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