Systems
Develop systems to realise your full potential.
Confidence is believing your systems will enable you to find a way.
Politics is what gets resorted to when systems don't work
Best Practices
- Understand First Principles: Validate reality
- Flow Diagrams: Track the flow of value
- Accelerated Learning: Broaden horizons, deepen insights
- Creative Thinking: Explore the matrices of your mind
- Problem Solving: Agree what the problem is
- Decision Making: Prioritize growth opportunities
- Thought Audit: Track where you place your time and attention
First we make our habits then our habits make us
Value System
What is valuable? How does success look like?
- How is value produced?
- How is value qualified?
- How is value quantified?
- What forces disrupt flow?
- What forces enhance flow?
- How is value exchanged?
- How is value distributed?
Improving standards raises the bar more predictably
Picturing Success
Use diagrams to capture the big picture and details at the same time.
- Abstraction Laddering
- Conflict Resolution Diagram
- Inversion
- Ishikawa Diagram
- Issue Trees
- Productive Thinking Model
Leveraging AI
Maximize time in flow by engineering systems that prompt use of the right tools and context.
Where can humans add greatest value in the loop?
Learning
What range of capabilities do you need to cultivate most?
Creative Thinking
Challenge dogma, use experiments to confirm a hypothesis for how to grow.
Problem Solving
Decision Loops
Business Operations
Strategy: What is your point of difference?
Supporting Operations: Outsource everything but Business Critical IP.
Data is the lifeblood of intelligence, culture controls the source
SaaS Toolkits
Software Development
Vibe coding will only take you so far, you need a clear picture of what outcomes are attached with success while avoiding technical debt by maintaining a clean architecture.
- Tech Stack
- AI Coding
- Agent Engineering
- Performance Metrics
- Product Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Blockchain Smart Contracts