Strategy

Working with ai will teach you very quickly to condense timelines and shatter limitations. Because when it says 3-5 days. And we can’t do it. It’s wrong.

When it is time to make a costly decision with significant consequences it is okay to suffer as you deliberate. There is preparation that must be made, research to be done, risks to be avoided, mitigated, and accepted. Resources to be aligned and work to be organized. But Once you make your decision, the time of anguish must end and every iota of energy you have must be committed to the success of what you decide. In other words. The suffering serves in the deliberation. Not in the action. When it’s time to act, ACT! With everything you’ve got.

When the path is not clear focus on the now and the next step.

We are all mercenaries until we find our own war path.

What I decide to do is based on what I want right now and what I understand at this point. If it proves to be wrong, then I will correct that when I get to it. Otherwise I continue.

Your loyalty to the past is best served by evolving to better meet the ever present future.

“If you're going to be wildly successful, you have to be wildly unusual. Your life won't resemble the lives of the people around you. You can learn a lot from Outliers, but you can't copy them. The style of your success has to fit who you are.” -Shane Parrish

Harmony and flow are stronger than brittle balance. Balance tries to preserve a fixed position. A hard enough force topples it. Flow receives new information and reorganizes around it. The practitioner adjusts tactics, not the target. Conviction remains. The method moves.

Just take the next step. Once you do you’ll be that much closer to what you want, and have a better idea of what to do.

False: “Science is moving faster than people’s ability to adapt.” True: “Science is moving faster than people are choosing to adapt.” The opportunity that is in front of us is astounding

"When do you lose your greatest advantage? It’s the second you delay what needs to be said. You convince yourself that holding back is just tactical patience. It isn't. It's hesitation wrapped up in a polite excuse. The right moment is rarely something you passively find; it’s something you actively prepare for. " -Phil M Jones

Weak plans have a way of becoming strong if definitely applied.

Change management should be violent. Especially if you are the founder or ceo.

Human needs are not soft details. They are part of the operating reality.

The opportunity is now and facing forward. There is no going back.

Negligence operates like a slippery slope, a gateway drug, and a slow boil. It starts small and inconsequential, and grows until it destroys everything it touches. Unless you secure the standard, and protect it relentlessly.

"How may I render the greatest amount of service to the greatest number of people possible?" I am obsessed with 👆question.

Talent impresses. Method travels.

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.