Templates

Nine decline messages. Copy them, change the nouns, send them. Each one comes with the situation it is built for and the specific way it fails, because a script used in the wrong place does more damage than no script at all — a message that is too formal for a peer reads as a rebuke, and one that is too casual for someone senior reads as dismissal. ...

Most time logs die on day four. Not because the person lacked discipline. Because the log asked for more precision than a working day can produce, and by Wednesday the honest options were falsifying it or abandoning it. Everyone abandons it, then concludes they are bad at tracking time. ...