I think the transition between things being done is maybe a bit more interesting.
"Build a house," is a thing, but at which point of the dreaming, designing, planning, permitting, architecting, financing, contracting, acquiring, installing, verifying, reworking, coordinating, inspecting, styling, unpacking, cleaning, landscaping, repairing, upgrading, and waiting, are you doing it?
Perhaps each discrete thing is itself a thing, and when you do a thing, or transition between things, is the matter needing clarifying.
If you are coordinating on how to do a thing, you are doing the thing, as long as the thing is coordinating on how to do the next thing. This "coordinating a thing" is a discrete thing we should not confuse for any other thing.
TFA's examples are unforgiving in that they suppose there is only ever one thing and all else should be nothing.
"Build a house," is a thing, but at which point of the dreaming, designing, planning, permitting, architecting, financing, contracting, acquiring, installing, verifying, reworking, coordinating, inspecting, styling, unpacking, cleaning, landscaping, repairing, upgrading, and waiting, are you doing it?
Perhaps each discrete thing is itself a thing, and when you do a thing, or transition between things, is the matter needing clarifying.
If you are coordinating on how to do a thing, you are doing the thing, as long as the thing is coordinating on how to do the next thing. This "coordinating a thing" is a discrete thing we should not confuse for any other thing.
TFA's examples are unforgiving in that they suppose there is only ever one thing and all else should be nothing.