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Making better excuses.

  • Saurabh Mithal

Saurabh Mithal

31 Dec 2024 • 1 min read
It doesn't matter how good your excuses are.
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We make things better by making better things, not better excuses.

Maintenance/change.

The goal of maintenance is to ensure that things don't get worse. Maintenance is getting a haircut, doing the dishes, getting to inbox zero. Maintenance is what "doing your job" mostly means. Ensure that you don't get fired. But maintenance doesn't bring
01 Dec 2025 1 min read

Spec making skills.

"I wish someone else would do this for me." This is not an unusual request or wish. We say it all the time. Maybe we mean it, or maybe it's just a way to feel lighter for a second. But what if we run with it?
30 Nov 2025 1 min read

Short no or long yes?

It's hard to say no. Especially for something we don't feel like doing. It's easier to rationalise and compromise and adjust. To make an exception. To say, "How does this hurt?" Saying yes when we want to say no can become a
29 Nov 2025
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