In the weeds

It turns out that no amount of reading will ever make you better at your job.

(Unless, of course, you’re a writer.)

What it takes to be better, more often, is to know the tricks and tips and processes and skills that make up doing the job.

And then finding a better way of doing it. Whether it’s a better strategy or a better posture, or a better technique—that makes you more effective or efficient at what you do.

But you often won’t find those things in a book. Instead, you’ll pick them up from living and learning and working in the weeds.

From talking to people. From following their lead. From actually doing the work.

From being exposed to what works and what doesn’t, long enough to know the nuance of a better approach.