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Systems

The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Rowan's note

This is the whole reason the Stream exists as a system and not a goal.

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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