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Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects

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I opened StickK.com, a site for making commitment contracts, and placed a bet that I would write a novel in 9 months and submit it to my literary agent by the end of the year. I told all of my friends about this contract and discussed it publicly many times, including to 100,000+ podcast listeners. The stakes of the bet? If I failed, I would send $9,999, the maximum amount allowed by StickK, to a so-called "anti-charity" whose cause I didn't support. Spoiler: I succeeded with about an hour left in the year and zero gas left in the tank. I'd even found a free day to whip together an AI-based book trailer after finishing the first draft. But here's what you need to know: even though I was confident I would pull through on the contract, there was simply no clear path to victory at the time that I signed it: How, then, was I so confident I would succeed? "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." —Bruce Lee I was co

Aim, fire, scan: the 80/20 of executing on big projects - Indie Hackers 31 Likes 14 Bookmarks 17 Comments The Contract On March 13, 2023, I did something crazy: I opened StickK.com , a site for making commitment contracts, and placed a bet that I would write a novel in 9 months and submit it to my literary agent by the end of the year. I told all of my friends about this contract and discussed it publicly many times, including to 100,000+ podcast listeners. The stakes of the bet? If I failed, I would send $9,999, the maximum amount allowed by StickK, to a so-called "anti-charity" whose cause I

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