The "Audit My Doc" Pattern

You finish the proposal at 4:55, read it once for typos, and send it. Two days later the reply comes back with three questions: what's the timeline, who owns delivery, and does the price in the summary match the price in the table. It doesn't. The summary says one number and the line items add up to another.

None of those were typos. They were holes: the kind you can't see in your own writing because your brain fills them in from what you meant to say.

You had Cowork open the whole time you wrote that doc. You just used it to help write the thing, not to attack it.

That's the miss. Drafting and auditing are different jobs, and the second one is the cheaper, higher-leverage of the two.

#Making is hard; breaking is easy

Writing a document means holding the whole argument in your head while you produce it one sentence at a time. By the end you are the worst possible reader of it, because you know what every line is supposed to mean.