Understand the specific reasons this curriculum's territory is uncomfortable — culturally, professionally, personally — and why that discomfort is itself a signal worth attending to.
This is the git blame step. You're discovering that the avoidance patterns you've treated as personal traits are mostly cultural and professional — installed by your context, sustained by the absence of better alternatives. The diagnosis precedes the treatment.
And the first caveat, which recurs: the lens itself is partly the problem here. If you catch yourself enjoying the systems metaphor more than you're feeling the discomfort, that's the pattern. Notice it. It will be back.
I want to start by saying the thing that should be said before any other sentence in this curriculum: I am a language model. I am not a therapist. The text you are reading was gen…
Most engineers can name the reasons they procrastinate. Almost none can name the reasons they don't sit with their hard feelings. The reasons are real and specific:
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1. Write a 1,500-word essay titled "What I Have Refused to Sit With." Name three to five things in your life right now you have been avoiding sitting with — feelings, conversation…
7 lessons. Read in order; spiral back when you need to. By the end you'll have used the core ideas twice — once on the abstract, once on something you'll meet at work next week.