- Topics: [[Mastery]] --- - Tools promise ease. Technique demands effort. - Focusing on tooling is a form of productive procrastination. It is refinement without real progression — without responsibility. - It's not about the thing you hold or use, but how you use it and what you do with it. - Effort is required to understand how to do something proficiently, and to discover how you do something personally. - From practiced proficiency comes originality.