#315 - When your values disagree with each other

STUFF I'VE WRITTEN

• When your values disagree with each other. The decision you keep circling is two of your own values, pulling opposite ways.
• From the Archive: The Hidden Cost of Keeping Your Options Open. Patience without a plan is just waiting with better branding.

STUFF I'M READING

• The tool is fine. The brief was bad. Sana Khalid on why the managers who get the most out of AI are the ones who could already brief a person. A vague ask gets a vague answer either way.
• Are great teams less productive?. Amy Edmondson found the best-led hospital teams logged more errors, because they were the ones willing to admit them.
• What it takes to build the life you actually want. Decide where the finish line is, then stop. Ryan Holiday on refusing to expand his bookshop.
• Ian Rankin on why he writes. He hands his biggest worries to a fictional character and lets them do the fretting.
• Why making friends as an adult is so hard. Lee Arden says it is housing, work and money, not you, and that friends deserve the obligations we save for family.
• Middle management roles are also a trap. Will Larson on why the skills executives need grow better as a line manager than in the middle layer.

STUFF I'M LINKING

• Bookpile. Look up any book and see where to buy, borrow or track it. Not one affiliate link anywhere.
• Fleeting. Play a fake twelve minute meeting on speaker so nobody interrupts you. Workplace self-defence.

Finally. Wonderhop. Four daily games, seven questions each. Give the answer everyone gives, or the one nobody does.