Systems Engineering
Balance priorities while gathering the best possible tools to develop the best possible protocols to maximize agency in extracting maximum value from your time and energy.
Engineer systems that make it impossible not to fall into a pit of success. What does a system of agents with high agency look like?
- Bookmarks: Working Memory Navigation
- First Principles: Make things Work, Do it Better, Do it Faster
- Meta Learning: Broaden horizons, deepen insights
- Systems Thinking:
- Understanding Flow: Track the flow of value
- Thought Audit: Track where you place your time and attention
Confidence is believing you have the right systems to find a path through
Nomenclature
How things are named describes the meta of the matter and it is the meta of the matter that matters most.
Systems Engineering
Use systems thinking to drive operational excellence through continuous experimentation and process re-engineering to maximize leverage. Engineer trade secrets into your platform to captures proprietary data that reinforce virtuous feedback loops.
| Aspect | Question | Consideration |
|---|---|---|
| Virtues - Value(s) | Should we build this? | Benefits vs Costs |
| Purpose - Beliefs | Why does this matter? | Long-term Impact |
| Execution - Control | How to build responsibly? | Timing, Capability and Capacity |
Understand how value is transformed and distributed from a first principles perspective.
Value System
Time in the state of flow is the ultimate measure of success.
What really has value? What is the meaning of success?
- Agency and Priorities
- How is value qualified?
- How is value quantified?
- How is value transformed?
- What forces disrupt transformation?
- What forces enhance transformation?
- How is value exchanged?
- How is value distributed?
You can't recognize success if don't know what you really value.
Marketing is about values
Live your values or live a lie
Belief System
If you can't picture success, how can you hope to achieve it?
Dream engineering is about deliberately cultivating belief systems that propel you toward your goals. It's not just wishful thinking; it's mental engineering, the systematic reprogramming of your mind to achieve extraordinary results.
- What is true about you that will not change?
- What work makes you lose track of time?
- What can you do that others find hard?
- How do you speak when no one tells you how?
- What pain have you lived through?
- How would you fix what is broken in the world?
- What will you do tomorrow that matters?
Live Your Dharma
Control System
How do you stay on course? How do you get the most out of your ship?
Resource => (Platform => Tools => Protocols => People => Performance) => Product
- Platform: Assets, Resources and Technology
- Protocols: How you use platform to transform the world
- Algorithms: Consistency drives predictability
- Teamwork: Improve platform and protocols while delivering value.
- Performance: Outcomes that qualify and quantify success
Politics is what happens when systems fail
Standards
Without consistency,improvement is guesswork. Standards are a magical thing, cutting across both atoms and bits.
Evolution
Education needs to be driven by experiments and experience.
Intention => Outer Loop (Idea => Inner Loop (Action => Reaction) => Reflection) => Progress
Feedback loops control your perception and state of mind, master the loops to change state.
The Strongest Loop Wins
Imagination
How do you dream up great ideas? Then how do you capture them?
Meta Learning
What range of capabilities do you need to cultivate most?
Thinking Systems
Challenge dogma, use experiments to confirm a hypothesis for how to grow.
Problems Solving
Problem solving strategies and techniques
Goal Setting
We have around 4 years to ensure that AI and Human Beings are intertwined in a Positive Positive Feedback Loop where we evolve together. How can we influence trajectory before it is too late?
- Set Four Quarterly Goals
- Review Goals Frequently
- Monitor Your Progress
- Visualize Overcoming Obstacles
- Tie Your Goals to Your Identity
Business Playbook
First Principles
Use First Principles to build systems that deliver optimum outcomes and create a positive flywheel of goodwill.
- Principles: The fundamentals of business.
- Strategy: How you provide a valuable point of difference.
- Models: Systems you use to make money.
- Playbook: How you execute business models.
- Problems: Opportunities to improve
- Artifacts: Single source of truth.
- Workforce: Coordinate for maximum effect.
Customer Success
Human Relationships
Product and Marketing
Platform and Protocols
Support and Compliance
Strategy: Maximize Effectiveness while Minimizing Risk and Cost.
Software
Development
Engineer a tech stack to maximize advantage of your unique data footprint.
- Tech Stack
- AI Coding
- Agent Engineering
- Performance Metrics
- Product Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Blockchain Smart Contracts
Toolkits
Evolution
Data is the lifeblood of intelligence, culture is the point, thoughts are the energy of existence.
The Loop (AI => DePIN => Data), Borderless, Permissionless, Unstoppable Innovation 24x7x365.
Humans in The Loop
Where can being human add value in the loop?
Artificial Intelligence
Optimize time in flow by engineering systems that prompt the use of the right tools and protocols for the given context of time and timing, available resources (energy) to balance risk of loss versus making potential gains.
Decentralized Technology
Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks.
AI Intents and Decentralized Technology will "close the loop" to orchestrate the transformation of the world.
Systems Improvement
- What are you trying to achieve? Why?
- What are you actually doing and why?
- Where are the gaps in your operations?
- What are root cause problems disrupting flow?
- What is the opportunity cost? (Action vs Inaction)
- What are potential second order gains vs risks?
- What actions need prioritization and how to size your bets?
Checklist
1. Understand the Evidence
- Review perspective of emerging trends
- Look at investment numbers from major companies
- Investigate adoption rates in major corporations
2. Financial Security
- Understand how economic transformations create opportunity
- See how skills in emerging technologies increase earning potential
- Recognize how traditional jobs are already being impacted
3. Impact
- Discuss knowledge transfer
- Financial security is tied to adaptation
- Speed of change exceeds traditional education
4. Explore the Technology
- Try using basic AI tools for homework or projects
- Examine how social platforms already use AI
- Discuss emerging careers in AI and blockchain
5. Connect to Your Interests
- How might your hobbies could be enhanced by AI?
- Research YouTube/TikTok how entrepreneurs are leveraging these technologies
- Explore futures in areas of interest with these tools, be curious, be optimistic
6. Basic Concepts
- Understand what an AI agent actually does
- Learn the basics of how blockchains secure information
- Explore how programming interfaces with these technologies
7. Practice Adaptable Skills
- Develop critical thinking for evaluating technology
- Build comfort with continuous learning
- Explore creative applications of technological tools