For the management work nobody trains you for — giving feedback that lands, cutting scope when the date won't move, and writing the update people actually read.
Curated by DineshA sequenced stack — each prompt is meant to feed the next.
How to use it
Two of these will tell you not to do the thing you came to do, which is the point.
The feedback prompt pressure-tests your concern before drafting a word, and it stops roughly a third of these conversations from happening — usually the ones where you had an impression rather than evidence. The scope cut refuses to add people or move the date, because you already knew those weren't available.
Status updates and triage are the weekly maintenance. Keep the update format identical week to week; the diff between them becomes the real signal.
The stack
Work top to bottom. Copy a prompt, run it, then carry what you learned into the next.
01 → 04
Turns a vague concern about someone's work into specific, dated, behavioural feedback — and checks whether what you're about to say is actually about them or about your own preferences.
DineshFor when the date won't move. Sorts the plan into what ships, what waits, and what quietly gets cancelled — and names what breaks for users in each case.
Lena FischerFront-loads the one thing that changed, states what's at risk without hedging, and makes the ask explicit — so the person who reads only the first line still gets it.
RonyTakes an overloaded list and sorts it into what actually ships, what gets dropped on purpose, and what someone needs to be told — instead of pretending it all fits.
Sam ReyesKeep going
Six prompts covering what a marketing team actually ships in a week — positioning, the landing page, the deck, the leave-behind one-pager, outreach, and social that isn't about nothing.
RonyThe four prompts for the part of job hunting that is actually work: making a résumé match one posting, writing a letter that couldn't be sent to anyone else, and walking in prepared.
RonyThe prompts that change the most for the least effort. None is longer than a paragraph, and three of them work best set once as a standing instruction rather than pasted per task.
Rony