Strategy

You get paid for the 8 hour day you clock. But you get your raises, your reputation, and your life from what you do with the other 16.

Unfortunately there will be no evidence that you tried if you do not make it. Success is the only proof.

For every problem, standard to uphold, toleration to kill, task, solution, or opportunity. We have 4 effective options: Execute. Schedule. Delegate. Kill. Any other decision makes the situation worse. Throughout the day things stack up, they go through that filtration before day close out. No fail.

run the experiment, share the data, let peers attack the result

You do not need to see the whole path. You need the next step.

Don’t delay in taking action to clear your mind. If your mind is wrestling with something and an action would alleviate that wrestling. Do the action. Free your mind.

Progress is not achieved by luck. But by working on yourself relentlessly. Forge Forward.

Break the pattern today or the cycle will continue tomorrow.

It’s hard to remove silos if you are operating in a silo.

“The person who approaches a problem like an opportunity has an advantage that the person who sees an obstacle will never understand.” -Shane Parrish

Hard work is always rewarded and the results are never random.

What breaks the groove is strain. Deliberate practice requires operating beyond the current comfort zone, under high concentration, with immediate feedback and a precise target. This is cognitively expensive in a way that ordinary performance is not. It is also the only mechanism known to actually drive improvement. Nothing else substitutes for it.

You want the outcome sure, But are you willing to make the investment to earn it?

If you see the potential in something and the path to realize it, keep going. A lot of folks just walk away. There is something true to being the change you hope for. Being the reflection you want to see in the world.

Adjust the tactics not the target. But the tactics are built before the fight, not during it.

Plans rarely go as planned.

Planning without execution is theory. Theory changes nothing.

Do what works.

i can not overstate the value of first principles thinking, systems, and recursive loops. everything is cyclical.

Do not mistake fame with reputation. They are not the same.

What works? Do that.

The reward for good work is more work.

If it does not generate profit. Capture value. Or teach you. Why do you choose to do it?

day by day brick by brick build stop at nothing

aim small, miss small.

Stewards multiply. Managers add. Incompetence subtracts. Ego divides. Choose wisely.

It’s simpler to build compounding assets when the build is funded. Every successful company that exists is either funded or famous. It’s easy to jump to the vision without living and traveling the path to get there.

A good path that leads to THE path is the path. Isn’t it? It’s so easy to mentally jump to the dream/vision. But the path there is often long with a lot of learning along the way. What is the next step? That is what I aim to take boldly.

imagine you have two products, one is profitable, and the other is losing money (and not a loss lead). why would you continue to play the losing game? this is not a hypothetical question.

unified living practices (ulp) or standard operating procedures (sop)? ulp is what technology is making realistic to us. sops are what we needed when things moved slow. now that we can create software on demand, we can adjust our tools in real time as we use them. need to train a new person? ask ai to print a training overview. the weight of responsibility goes from maintaining documents to utilizing and improving workflows.