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OrganizationalAGAdam Grant 2-min read 15-min action

The Shitty First Draft Validation

Decouple generation from evaluation by producing three deliberately rough versions.

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Progress over perfection

Creators stall because they judge raw early-stage work against their refined late-stage taste. Decouple generation from evaluation to break the stall.

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Chapter 4: Fools Rush In
By Adam GrantView source

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Grant separates generation from evaluation. Gottlieb rewrites the internal narrator running the evaluation in the first place.