<aside> ℹ️ Effective capacity management involves treating each cycle as a clean slate, never carrying over old work without reshaping and considering it as a new potential bet. This approach is essential to maximize future options, given the unpredictability of emerging ideas or urgent requests.

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The key to managing capacity is giving ourselves a clean slate with every cycle. That means only betting one cycle at a time and never carrying scraps of old work over without first shaping and considering them as a new potential bet.

It is crucial to maximize our options in the future. We don’t know what will happen in the next six weeks. We don’t know what brilliant idea will emerge or what urgent request might appear.