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Sep 08, 2023
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When it comes to planning out your work-year, work-quarter, work-month, or work-week, one of the most common ways I see being used as a metric is word-count: I will write 1000 words a day, five days a week.

The problem I’ve found with this method is that typed words, even end-of-day words, are not a great metric. Writing is not like cleaning a bathroom w…

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