The Real Work · Every Thursday

One real decision.
Run through the test.
Every Thursday.

Every week I take something I was actually stuck on and run it through the three questions in public: what's the goal, is it hard or wrong, what's the move. Then I show you the move it produced. Written for people who have to decide something before Friday.

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What you get first: The first email sends the three-question test on one page, a card from the Send It deck, and the 16-minute documentary. Then the Thursday rhythm starts.

What's actually in it

Three parts. Same order. Every week.

01

What I got wrong

A real decision from that week, including the part where I was reading it wrong. Named people, named stakes.

02

The system that fixed it

The actual mechanism, written out so you can run it without me. A procedure, not a principle.

03

A test you can run this week

One specific exercise, usually twenty minutes, that puts the system against a decision you're already carrying.

Who writes it

Terry Rice.

Brooklyn. Father of five. Sober since May 15, 2015. Still in the gym five days a week.

He writes this because he had to figure it out the hard way. Every system in here was tested on a real decision with real stakes before it went in an email.

  • PreviouslyMeta, then Adobe. Fourteen years after he left, Adobe booked him back to speak.
  • TeachesFaculty at NYU and General Assembly
  • KeynotesGoogle, Amazon, EY, Berkshire Hathaway
  • Elsewhere30,000+ on LinkedIn · Featured in Fast Company
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