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The Pressure Line
The diagnostic both of them land on.
How it works
- 1Pressure is the fuel. Stress and overwhelm mean you have crossed the line and are pushing in the wrong direction.
- 2Jason's tell is simple: if the work is depleting you rather than energizing you, the setting is too high.
- 3His counterweights are jujitsu in the morning, the gym, near-daily sauna, and deliberately protected time with his wife.
Hear it on the podcast
The 10-Minute Morning Routine That Replaced an Entire Project Management StackListen to the episodeMore from this episode
The Prototype-to-Production CanyonJason's core point on why vibe coding a working demo is nowhere near a shippable product.Build GovernanceKindling's decision layer for what gets built.Portfolio of Solutions, Not a Portfolio of SoftwareJason's reframe of what Kindling is actually accumulating.The Chief of Staff PatternThe app Jason has in testing. Structurally it is two agents working a shared surface.The Scope DumpJason's antidote to avoidance-by-unknown-scope.Ryan's First Anti-Avoidance MoveOne item from a list of twelve, framed as Ryan's personal conviction rather than a business tactic.
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