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Meaningful Progress

Everything gets built twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

first principles of flow

Align intentions and energy to exert maximum force in the direction of collective purpose to realize potential by constantly building belief and relentlessly focusing attention on delivering what truly has value.

If you wish to help people make meaningful progress you need to see life from their perspective to understand what drives them forward.

Mantra

The best way to make progress is to help someone else

Evolution​

Life is a game of making the best possible decisions and trying to influence others to follow.

From the cradle to the grave, what are the common challenges to navigate on the path to living a fulfilling life?

ItemStory ArcMantra
01ProblemWhere is the friction/waste? The Enemy
02Intents & PurposesWhat are you going to about it? Why you? (Identity & Values)
03PerspectiveWhat do you see that others don't?
04PredictionsMarket Trend, Opportunity vs Risk (value creation / cashflow)
05PlatformOperating Base, Essential Assets, and Proprietary Tech
06ProtocolsKnowledge Base, Secret Sauce of Best Practices, Onboarding
07PeopleEthical, Capable, Aligned and Driven
08ProductDesign Driven by Valuable Outcomes
09PersuasionRhetoric and Incentives to Grow a Community
10PerformanceSet Clear Expectations and Consequences
11PlanningWho, What, When? Standard Protocols, Predictable Costs
12PotentialThe next evolutionary leap? Chase the impossible dream
13ReflectionWhat questions should you be asking?

Engineer systems to bet on experiments that speed run opportunities to deliver step improvements to the quality of existence.

Mantra

The meta of the matter is where the true value lies

Flow​

In the end all that matters is a state of mind.

Flow is a state of optimal experience when we are fully immersed and engaged in activities. Achieving flow leads to enhanced productivity, creativity, and satisfaction, making it a crucial outcome of making the correct decisions.

Individual Flow is characterized by intense focus, clarity of goals, a balance between challenge and skill, loss of self-consciousness, an altered sense of time, and intrinsic motivation. Achieving flow involves setting clear goals, matching challenges to skills, and minimizing distractions.

Collective Flow occurs when a group experiences flow together, often seen in team sports or collaborative projects. Key elements include shared goals, interdependence, communication, and trust. Strategies to achieve collective flow include aligning objectives and fostering communication.

  1. Enhanced cognitive functions: Flow boosts memory, reasoning, and creativity, allowing you to process information more efficiently, generate more alternatives, and evaluate them more critically.
  2. Faster subconscious processing: In a flow state, decision making shifts from conscious to subconscious processing, which is about 7 seconds faster. This allows for quicker, more intuitive decisions, especially in high-pressure situations.
  3. Reduced stress and emotional bias: Flow reduces stress levels and promotes positive emotions, helping you cope with uncertainty and avoid emotional biases that can negatively impact decision making.
  4. Increased motivation and commitment: Flow aligns your actions with your values and goals, increasing motivation to overcome obstacles and follow through on decisions.
  5. Improved pattern recognition: The subconscious mind activated during flow has almost unlimited capacity compared to conscious working memory, allowing for better pattern recognition and connections between ideas.
  6. Energy efficiency: Flow is an energy-efficient state, allowing you to think longer and harder about complex decisions without burning out.
  7. High-speed decision making: Flow is particularly beneficial for making rapid decisions in high-stakes situations, like in finance or sports.

In AI reasoning, engineering flow is the holy grail.

Better flow of decision making from better feedback loops, eliminates dis-ease, strengthens conviction, and frees up your imagination for making unseen connections.

Flow of Value​

Map the flow of value from source, through state changes to final outcomes.

  1. Start with a clear expectations: Begin by defining and clarifying your expected outcomes using an Outcome Map. This helps align the team and stakeholders on the goal and contributing factors.
  2. Use balanced metrics: Employ a set of balanced metrics to measure both velocity and quality aspects of performance.
  3. Visualize the value stream: Create Value Stream Maps to visualize and measure the current, ideal, and target state workflows. This helps identify constraints and prioritize opportunities.
  4. Map dependencies: Use a Dependency Map to identify external factors affecting the team's performance and target dependencies to break or mitigate.
  5. Assess team capabilities: Create a Capability Map to understand internal factors affecting performance and identify areas for skill development or resource allocation.
  6. Prioritize improvements: Use the insights from all maps to create a prioritized list of initiatives, considering factors like impact and effort.
  7. Involve key stakeholders: Include representatives from all parts of the value stream in the mapping process to ensure diverse perspectives.
  8. Use collaborative tools: Leverage shared visual board tools for real-time collaboration during mapping sessions.
  9. Iterate regularly: Repeat the mapping process every 3-6 months to reassess progress and set new targets.
  10. Focus on qualitative measurement: Remember that qualitative measurement is often more valuable than purely quantitative metrics.
  11. Consider external facilitation: A skilled, outside facilitator can bring unbiased perspective and efficiency to the mapping process.
  12. Start with estimates: When beginning, relative measurements and team estimates are often sufficient to identify major bottlenecks and opportunities.
  13. Communicate visually: Use maps and visual representations to share understanding across different levels and departments in the organization.
  14. Connect improvements to outcomes: Ensure that all improvement efforts are clearly linked to the desired outcome defined in the Outcome Map.

The Critical Path​

Start with a clear picture of desired outcomes and work backwards to picture overcoming obstacles on the critical path to success.

The Heroes Journey

Journey's need accurate maps and forecasts to ensure successful navigation.

Mantra

Link your thinking so that others can improve the process

Rituals​

Establish routines, rituals and mantra to evolve unconscious competence and leverage flow for better decision making:

  1. Create an environment conducive to flow by minimizing distractions and setting clear goals.
  2. Break down complex decisions into manageable steps.
  3. Engage in activities that match your skills and challenges to maintain focus.
  4. Practice mindfulness to stay present and prevent overthinking.
  5. Use flow for generating ideas and initial decision-making, but follow up with conscious evaluation and editing when out of the flow state.

Maintain a decision journal to improve thought processes and prevent reliving past mistakes.

Mantra

Breakthrough ideas come from connecting with the void, not with a screen.

Systems​

Engineer systems to negate the need for willpower to fall into good habits under times of pressure and fatigue.

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