The Planning Trap

The planning trap is the moment preparing to work starts to feel like working. Another outline, another doc, another restructure — real effort, real thinking, no shipped outcome.

It persists because planning delivers the reward of progress without the risk of judgment. Nothing can be criticized until it exists.

DYO breaks the loop by making the unit of work immutable: a mission you can't re-plan, ending in an artifact you have to submit.