The case against your five-year plan
We're taught to map the whole route before we set off. But the most honest people I know are working without one — and getting further for it.
Start writing here. The first paragraph gets a drop cap automatically, so lead with a sentence that earns it. Everything below shows the formatting you have to work with; delete it once you've seen it.
Ordinary paragraphs read at a comfortable measure. Links look like this, and you can lean on bold or italics.
A section heading sets the next move
Set the big turns in the essay with <h2>.
Pull the one line you want people to screenshot up into a quote like this.
— a line worth remembering
A smaller heading for sub-points
- One clear idea per line.
- Parallel structure reads faster.
- Stop before it becomes a brain-dump.
Close on something that lands. Send them off with one thing to carry, not a summary.
Keshav Bhatt
Leadership facilitator, coach and writer. Harvard-trained, anti-guru. Facilitator, not guru.
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