🌱 Do the Thing: Facts, Feelings, Future (Copy this template)

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes.

✅ Doing The Thing

Harvard grad Logan Kilpatrick runs an ai team at Google DeepMind and hosts the Around the Prompt podcast. 

I love how he succinctly shares what he does and believes on his personal site: 

But my favorite part is this line: 

Same here. The stuff I’m most proud of didn’t come from planning or overthinking…

It came from just starting the thing.

📋 Definition of Done

The phrase “definition of done” comes from agile development and I keep coming back to it. 

I first learned about it from Dan Martell’s book Buy Back Your Time (and he mentioned it again when I interviewed him).

The concept is simple (defining specifically what done looks like for your projects), but can be tricky to actually implement when busy. 

But I recently found this blog post offering an easier way to use it using 3 “F”s:

• Facts: what/when/how you expect this to be done

• Feelings: how you want to feel when it’s done

• Future: what this enables you to do next

So for example: 

Want peace of mind? Define done.

🤔 Done is a Decision 

That line hit me. 

The big idea here isn’t to do more. It’s really to do less and so we can just be. 

Definition of done is just a tool to get there. 

Salud,
Mitchell