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By four in the afternoon, decisions you'd have made carefully at nine get made carelessly, or not at all. Most people who run something recognise this immediately. The usual explanation for it is wrong, or at least much shakier than it's presented. Which matters,...
"Trust your gut" and "don't make emotional decisions" are both standard advice, and they contradict each other. Neither tells you which situation you're in. There's a good answer to that, and it comes from an unusual source. Two researchers who expected to disagree...
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Most work-life balance advice was written for people with jobs. That's not a small distinction. A job comes with an external boundary — contracted hours, someone else's deadlines, a defined scope, and a moment where the building closes. The advice assumes that...
Most advice about protecting your time treats it as an emotional problem — learn to say no, stop people-pleasing, value yourself more. There's a more useful approach available to anyone who owns a business, and it's arithmetic. Work out what an hour is worth...
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Analysis paralysis is rarely an information problem. People stuck on a decision usually have plenty of information — frequently more than they need. What they don't have is a rule for when to stop looking. The idea that fixes this Herbert Simon, who won the...
By four in the afternoon, decisions you'd have made carefully at nine get made carelessly, or not at all. Most people who run something recognise this immediately. The usual explanation for it is wrong, or at least much shakier than it's presented. Which matters,...
"Trust your gut" and "don't make emotional decisions" are both standard advice, and they contradict each other. Neither tells you which situation you're in. There's a good answer to that, and it comes from an unusual source. Two researchers who expected to disagree...
Ask a business owner how things are going and the most common answer is "busy." It functions as good news. It signals demand, momentum, a business that people want. Nobody follows up. Which is convenient, because busy tells you nothing about whether the business is...
Behind what? It's worth actually answering, because the feeling of being behind requires a schedule — and there isn't one. Nobody issued a timetable for how large your business should be by now, or what you should be earning in year four, or when you were...
Rest gets filed under self-care, which is why owners ignore it. Self-care sounds like something you do when there's spare capacity, and there is never spare capacity. Try a different frame. Your judgement is the product. Not your hours — your judgement. Pricing,...
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