Last month, I wrote about slowing down to get clarity — on who does what, by when, and what "done" actually looks like. This one is in the same spirit, but about a different kind of clarity: making sure you and the person you're talking to are actually looking at the same thing. Earlier in my career, I sat through a lot of calls where two people would spend twenty minutes describing something to each other — a report, a slide, a data table, an email — and only realize at the