is AI giving you spaghetti brain?

Hilary Gridley · 24 Sept 2026

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If a team checks in with its manager only once on a project, it should be right after the project plan.

Their wordsThis is why I tell my team that if they ONLY check in with me ONCE during the course of the project, it should be here, after the project plan. If we get fully aligned on the problem and the plan, we will save ourselves a lot of heartache down the road.

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