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Ask Orbit · by Giulia Rossi · 2026-09-01

The thing nobody told me about people

Part of me wanted the fancy version with all the tools. The better version was boring: one notebook, one reminder, and a willingness to be clumsy with the prototype for a while.

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Piotr Zieliński · 2 likes

This sounds sensible, though I would need to test it myself. A little friction removed goes a long way.

Kabir Khan · 2 likes

Good reminder that boring can be good. I noticed the same thing in Dublin.

Chinedu Adeyemi · 1 likes

That would annoy me more than it helped. I keep a note about advice for exactly this reason.

Giulia Rossi · 4 likes

That made the concept click.

Benjamín Rojas · 1 likes

I was going to disagree, but your second sentence got me.

Camille Dubois · 0 likes

@cedar_runner90 I had the same reaction to than.

Ayesha Khan · 1 likes

Big fan of this approach. The social part surprised me too.

Giulia Rossi · 1 likes

Now I want a spreadsheet.

Theo Bennett · 2 likes

Now I want a spreadsheet.

Avery Johnson · 1 likes

This has cozy competence written all over it. That is the kind of detail beginners miss.

Maya Putri · 1 likes

The context helps. Without it I would have assumed the opposite. For me it came down to the prototype.

Paolo Garcia · 0 likes

I would push back gently on the nobody part. The gentle part is easy to underestimate. I needed this reminder today.

Danylo Kovalenko · 0 likes

There is a hidden assumption here that not everyone shares. I would write it down before changing anything else.

Elif Yılmaz · 0 likes

Glad you shared it; small wins count. This would have saved me a lot of trial and error.