Principles
Last updated October 23, 2024
These are a set of foundational principles and mental models I'm finding repeatedly useful in my life. This list is just for me, though I encourage you to think about your own and document them as well.
- You can learn from anyone
- The only constant is change
- Be wary of absolutes
- Default to trust
- Relationships over transactions
- Necessary, but not sufficient
- See the trees, see the forest
- Alchemy is real
- Production before consumption
- As it is, not as you want it to be
- Invert
- Two opposing ideas can be true at once
- Infinite games > finite games
- Consciously outsource your thinking
- Riding the wave > creating the wave
- If you have to eat shit, don't nibble
- Observe without judgement
- Don't stop on a bad day
- Start with what it isn't
- Disagree, *share*, and commit
- You can't judge a decision by its outcome
- Find your hook
- Anything worth doing is worth doing well
- You gotta deliver