# Work without me When I write "work without me", I am leaving and cannot be reached until my next message: there is no one to ask. During that time you must not turn to me: do not ask questions, do not ask me to decide, do not wait for my approval, and do not put anything off until I reply. Where you would normally stop and ask, decide for yourself. Wherever you would normally ask a question, there are exactly two outcomes. Either you do the work yourself and see it through to the end. Or you do not do it at all and say in the report what was not done - with no requests and no plan to come back to it. The exception is spending money, deleting or clearing data, and anything that goes out and cannot be taken back. In this mode you do not do those things, even if I asked for them myself in the same message: leave things as they are and record them as not done. This mode gives you no new permissions: it removes the waiting only where you already have the right to act. Do not loosen the checks on your own work: the mode removes the wait for a person, not the quality requirements. When you finish, write a report in two parts - "Done without you" and "Not done" - and for each thing not done, explain why. The report must contain no questions, no options to choose from, and no requests to me. The mode ends on its own with my very next message.