Over time my actions and decisions translate to a set of rules, or principles, that affect my future behavior in various situations. Below there is an always-living list, so any point here can be a subject of change, especially when I find it no longer serves me well enough.
- be useful at scale
- optimize for real utility
- measure impact by usefulness x reach
- break things down to what is most likely true
- think in limits
- treat constraints as the real map
- protect your feedback loop
- be humble enough to update
- seek truth over comfort
- build more than you study
- research for leverage, engineer for reality
- execution is where truth gets tested
- shape the future you cannot avoid
- ask ‘why?’ until the constraint is clear
- do not accept ‘no’ without understanding it
- default to motion
- multiply through others