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Why we picked it The single essay behind our line that a roadmap is a direction, not a contract. It argues that a long plan is just a guess you wrote down, and that writing it down gives it a false weight it has not earned. Read it when you feel pressure to commit to a twelve month plan you cannot actually see.
Planning is Guessing
From Signal v. Noise (Rework excerpt) by Jason Fried ~4 min read
- A plan is a guess, so stop treating a long one as truth
- Working without a rigid long plan is fine, and often faster
- Decide in the short term with information you actually have