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you can't delegate trust
the first time i tried to "delegate," i basically just handed someone my to-do list and walked away. then i hovered. then i rewrote half of what they did. then i quietly concluded that delegating doesn't work and i should've just done it myself. took me embarrassingly long to see the obvious: i hadn't delegated anything. i'd handed off the tasks but kept all the trust. and tasks without trust isn't delegation — it's surveillance with extra steps. here's the thing nobody tel
Jarad Backlund
Jun 182 min read
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