CHAPTER 6

Nailing It

Accountability means to say what you do, do what you say.

PEARL ZHU

David’s Journal Entry, May 14, 2021

As I am sitting down to revise this chapter on nailing it, I am aware that this whole book project has been an exercise in nailing it. It’s ironic to me, because on the one hand this practice is so essential to conscious accountability—yet it is something that I have really struggled with at different points in my life. I remember friends in college joking that my name should have been “David Late” because I could never quite manage to show up at the agreed upon time—and I did not like the idea that people saw me as not fully reliable or responsible. And then there was that fundraising initiative at a nonprofit that I ...

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