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Mechanisms

The concrete how of a function: the specific method, routine, or machinery you would actually run. Swappable by design, since several different mechanisms can serve the same function equally well. If you can't picture doing it Tuesday morning, it isn't here.

The concrete how of a function: the specific method, routine, or machinery you would actually run. Swappable by design, since several different mechanisms can serve the same function equally well. If you can't picture doing it Tuesday morning, it isn't here.

Example

In the decade list, "be a better parent" is a function, so its mechanisms are the interchangeable how: phone in a drawer from 6 to 8pm, Saturday morning alone with each kid, a weekly 20-minute check-in. "Wake up earlier" lands here too, not beside "meaning."

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