I cut my team's one-on-ones from every 2 weeks to once a month. Stretching the schedule looked like a clean win: fewer calls and more hours back. Alignment broke instead. Reconciling the drift took more time than the calls I set out to save. Each habit has a hurdle rate: the minimum input the system needs to clear what pushes back on it. In 1966, 3 weeks of complete bed rest cost young men 27% of their aerobic fitness; 30 years of natural aging only took 12%. You find the floor by lowering what you put in until progress slips, then returning to the input that held.
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Chapters:
(00:00) Blake on knowing what is enough
(00:06) Cutting one-on-ones to once a month breaks alignment
(00:35) Each habit has a hurdle rate
(00:52) Three weeks of bed rest versus 30 years of aging
(01:21) The Silver Bridge collapses in 1967
(01:49) Finding the floor by trimming input
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