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Seth Godin
08 Sep 2026 · Hastings-on-Hudson · Announcement
The next cohort starts in October and I have spent two weeks rewriting the first prompt. It was four hundred words. Now it is nine. Most of the work in teaching is deciding what to leave out, and then sitting with the discomfort of having left it out.
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Renate Reinsve
Renate Reinsve 08 Sep 2026
Nine words. I would like to see the four hundred you buried to get there.
Alex Palou
Alex Palou 08 Sep 2026
Ran a version of this exercise with my team last spring. The cutting is the lesson.
Alperen Sengun
Alperen Sengun 08 Sep 2026
Curious whether the shorter prompt raises the floor or only the ceiling.

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