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date: '2022-11-21T06:31:05'
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- 8 Years on the Road
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incontext: https://hyp.is/E2tl0GlmEe2cZXOxi8VhuA/tomcritchlow.com/2022/11/10/8-years-on-the-road/
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- self-employed
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- consulting
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- exact: "I\u2019ve been using this phrase \u201Cthe next most useful thing\u201D\
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\ as a guiding light for my consulting work - I\u2019m obsessed with being\
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\ useful not just right. I\u2019ve always rejected the fancy presentation\
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\ in favor of the next most useful thing, and I simply took my eye off the\
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\ ball with this one. I\u2019m not even sure the client views this project\
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\ as a real disappointment, there was still some value in it, but I\u2019\
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m mad at myself personally for this one. A good reminder not to take your\
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\ eye off the ball. And to push your clients beyond what they tell you the\
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\ right answer is."
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prefix: ' hiring their marketing team).
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Anyway, while consulting work '
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source: https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/11/10/8-years-on-the-road/
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text: The customer is not always right (just in matters of taste). Part of consultancy
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is providing stewardship and pushing back, just like any role I guess
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updated: '2022-11-21T06:31:05.094140+00:00'
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display_name: James Ravenscroft
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in-reply-to: https://tomcritchlow.com/2022/11/10/8-years-on-the-road/
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- self-employed
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- consulting
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- hypothesis
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url: /replies/2022/11/21/1669012265
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<blockquote>I’ve been using this phrase “the next most useful thing” as a guiding light for my consulting work - I’m obsessed with being useful not just right. I’ve always rejected the fancy presentation in favor of the next most useful thing, and I simply took my eye off the ball with this one. I’m not even sure the client views this project as a real disappointment, there was still some value in it, but I’m mad at myself personally for this one. A good reminder not to take your eye off the ball. And to push your clients beyond what they tell you the right answer is.</blockquote>The customer is not always right (just in matters of taste). Part of consultancy is providing stewardship and pushing back, just like any role I guess
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