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Field note 03 · Mindset

Think in ROCK

Stop chatting. Start delegating.

The tool in front of you has been ready for a while. What slows most of us down is a habit we carry over from chat: asking one small thing at a time, from inside the task. ROCK is a short brief that flips it - you hand over the whole result and let the tool work back. Four moves: Result, Output, Context, Know.

Chatting means steering every keystroke: one question, the answer, the next question. It kept us in control when the tools were small. Advanced tools reward the opposite - describe the outcome you want, then let the tool plan the steps.

The shift is to think about your work top-down, from the result your business needs, instead of from inside, one line at a time. The tool can hold the whole shape at once. Usually the limit is not the tool; it is our habit of thinking linearly.

The shift, before the method

Three habits to unlearn

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The brief

ROCK, four moves

Before you hand over a task, cover these four. Together they spell ROCK - the delegation method for Cowork and Claude Code, the English rendering of the SKOK method.

A quick way in

Spot your old habit

Pick the one that sounds like you. I'll name the move that fixes it.

Choose one above - the answer grows here.
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