The Circle
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Planning Projects and Work with AI

Most plans fail not because the goal was wrong, but because nobody broke it down honestly. You said "I'll launch the after-school program by September" and never wrote down the twenty smaller things that have to happen first. AI is genuinely useful here — not because it knows your situation, but because it forces you to lay out the steps you've been avoiding.

This lesson is about turning a fuzzy goal into a real plan with phases, effort estimates, and a list of things that could go wrong.

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