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OR: Swimming in sauce.

From LinkedIn rants to airfield-based barbecue ... we talk about why adaptation beats detailed planning.

When your carefully planned day out becomes a disaster, do you stick to the plan or pivot? We start with LinkedIn beef about scrappy MVPs, detour through a failed town visit with a toddler, and end up at an airfield watching planes while eating incredible brisket.

This meandering conversation explores the tension between wanting to craft something properly and needing to experiment your way forward - whether you're building products, planning holidays, or figuring out your next career move.

Including-but-not-limited-to:

• Why demanding a perfect brief upfront can be a career-limiting move
• The false choice between "scrappy rubbish" and "proper quality"
• How 1% of ideas actually work (so why invest everything in detailed plans?)
• The three routes to getting unstuck: power, influence, or acceptance
• Why external forcing functions are needed to kill zombie projects
• When to follow the itinerary vs when to throw seeds and see what grows
• The sliding scale from planned group tours to "book a flight and figure it out"
• How high stakes + high novelty requires a different kind of planning
• Why you can't read the label from inside the bottle

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