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Resistance

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit.

Rowan's note

Caught myself "researching" instead of writing for the third day running. Read this instead of researching more.

A compilation, not a single sustained argument in the way most of the other books on this shelf are — Jorgenson stitched this together…

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Kleon's earlier, looser book, published before Show Your Work and clearly written by someone who hadn't yet fully worked out the more structured argument…

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Not a business book by any stretch, and I'm genuinely wary of putting it on this particular shelf, next to spreadsheets and growth memoirs…

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A systems book disguised, fairly cleverly, as a habits book. The framing everyone actually remembers from it — atomic, meaning tiny, incremental changes; compound…

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