4. Pivot, stop, accelerate, but quickly, rather than making plans

4.1 Planning as a guide, not a constraint

While planning is an indispensable tool for operations, it is of only relative and provisional interest in exploration. Relative, because depending on discoveries and experiences, tasks will be continued or stopped, while others will appear that need to be dealt with. Provisional too, because you'll have to redo the schedule regularly. So avoid making precise schedules and spending a lot of time building them. Instead of expensive and complicated software, use a whiteboard that can be modified at will. Planning is useful, but it's only a reference, a guide, certainly not a constraint.