August 20, 2025

Floods the frame

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The only way you get and stay on the same page is to talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, then talk about it some more.

Every day.

Every hour of every day.

It’s not that you’re trying to make it difficult, it’s not that anyone’s looking for ways to stray. It’s that any two people – or four or forty – are bound to wander apart whenever new information enters part of the frame that they can’t see.

Absolute certainty: information floods the frame all the time.

That’s an argument for finding every opportunity to update and giving no latitude for squirrelling away or making independent leaps in the dark.

Take a step, update. Take a step, update.

The downside: it removes the element of the good kind of surprise.

The upside: it removes the element of the bad kind of surprise.

Skippy strategy: Try to keep surprises for birthdays.

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