Dew of Your Youthhttps://dewofyouryouth.com/A blog by Jacob Shore about genealogy, language learning, faith, and software — tracing family history, studying Arabic, and thinking carefully about things that matter.enSun, 31 May 2026 13:30:09 UTCDon’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatnesshttps://dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/https://dewofyouryouth.com/post/clipping-your-wings/Sun, 31 May 2026 15:56:24 +0300Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatness Completion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I ran into this building my own personal ops system, and it turns out fixing it means thinking about Item Response Theory, Glicko ratings, and the Sharpe ratio.