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September 18, 2025  ·  Thinking  ·  2 min read

Start With a Door

Every project needs one obvious way in.

A new product can contain many good ideas and still feel impossible to enter. The first step has to be obvious enough to try without a meeting.

Find the door: one task, one promise, one useful result. Put it where people can see it.

Everything else can wait in the next room.

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