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The Shitty First Draft Validation

Decouple generation from evaluation by producing three deliberately rough versions.

Help each person see who benefits when they do the work well.

Have the team write — anonymously — why the project will fail before it launches.

Make one specific, low-cost ask of five people this week to re-scope what you own.

Imagine the ask going wrong in three specific ways, then write a one-line response to each.

Pre-decide ten recurring low-stakes choices once, in writing, so you never re-decide them.

Deliver hard feedback first, then load the longer list of positives at the end.

Name the hard conversation 'a rumble' before you start it.

Before launching, ask the team to imagine it failed and write why.

Before any meeting, write a disputable, specific purpose — or cancel it.

Build a three-word vocabulary for repairing small cross-difference moments.