Dolines Instead of Deadlines

How I drafted a book in twelve weeks without any pressure whatsoever

This essay is part of my Scale-Smart Moves series on tactics & operations that compound across your system. See the full index here.

Four million. That’s how many books are published every single year. A tiny number compared to the countless manuscripts that stall and starve along the way. When I first attempted to write a book, at twenty-one, I made it …