Notes from the edge of the page

Marginalia

Thoughts before they become arguments. Questions worth keeping.

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A model can give you the answer. It cannot give you the right to act on it. That you earn every time.

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Write your rules in calm. An incident is a poor moment to discover what you meant to protect.

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A useful workflow describes its stopping point as carefully as its goal. Write the condition that calls a person back into the work.

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Delegate the task. Keep the judgment. Keep the apology too.

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A junior analyst’s first bad memos were never merely waste. They were how senior analysts got made. Protect some of that inefficiency.