Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider

Jon Macaskill and Will Schneider

Friday Debrief

Somewhere we learned that needing help disqualifies us

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Jon Macaskill & Will Schneider
Sep 25, 2026
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Someone offered to help me carry something this week and my first word, before I even thought about it, was “no.” Pure reflex. I had it. I didn’t need anybody. Then I spent the next 2 hours doing alone what would have taken 20 minutes with a second set of hands, and quietly called that discipline.

I’ve done this my whole life. Ran teams where I’d redo a …

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