The systems hiding inside your best work
Your strongest work already contains a method. The opportunity is learning how to see it, name it and make it repeatable.
Aaron B. ScarlettThe work that feels instinctive is rarely without structure. More often, the structure has become so familiar that we stop noticing it.
Look for the repeated decisions
Pay attention to the questions you ask, the sequence you follow and the signals that change your mind. Those patterns are the beginning of a useful system.
A good system does not replace judgment. It protects the conditions in which good judgment can happen consistently.