9 min
Are You Working Too Much, or Is the Work Actually Necessary?
A practical way to tell whether long hours are necessary responsibility, avoidable momentum, or unrecoverable time being spent too casually.
Work & Reputation
Being busy and being useful are not the same job.
Lessons about pricing fear, responsibility, reputation, competence, and knowing when somebody else knows more.
The question underneath it
What does your work cost when it follows you home?
Where the book goes
- Be Useful Before You Try to Look Important
- The Estimate You Are Afraid to Send
- Payroll Friday
- Your Word Gets There Before You Do
- I Didn't Know
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Asking for Help Is a Competence Skill
Why experienced people can become vulnerable to adjacent problems—and how asking for help can be part of good judgment instead of evidence against it.