Brief
Week ahead →
Your own standard is the meeting you can't move.
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Synthesis
There's more exactness available today than there are things that actually need it, and a surplus like that goes looking for a target. Hand it a real one. One finishable task, done exactly and early, before the exactness starts hunting for a flaw closer to home. Underneath the sharp thread runs a softer one: warmth arriving through another person, wrapped around a small snag you can leave untouched. The clean window is the first hour, before the day fills up.
Do
Liner notes
Ginger
Legwork
Don't
Disclaimers
Hindsight
Blueprints
Life
A third name comes up in a warm conversation today, someone neither of you has brought up in a while, and how you talk about them will say more about the two of you than about them. You'll hear your own footing in the room shift as you answer. Nothing gets decided; the read just gets clearer.
Try this
Listen
In These Times — Makaya McCraven
Jazz cut and reassembled from live takes; a maker's record.
Read
The Craftsman — Richard Sennett
On skill, hand-work, and making as a form of thinking.
Watch
Certified Copy (2010) — Abbas Kiarostami
A whole film inside one conversation's shifting meaning.
Try
A whetstone session on your kitchen knives
Slow, exact, hands over screens; the edge you can actually fix.
On the calendar
RFP - "Scanning" Project
10:00 · Microsoft Teams Meeting
UKG \ USRC Timeline Review
10:30 · Microsoft Teams Meeting
Allergist
11:00
Therapy
12:00
Alliant/USRC Update Call
14:00 · Microsoft Teams Meeting
Canceled: Supply Chain Updates and Initiatives
15:30 · Teams
Facebook and LinkedIn Ads Manager - Payment Process
15:30 · Microsoft Teams Meeting
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