Antifragile
Do you get stronger from chaos?
Do you get stronger from chaos?
What does a codebase in peak condition look like?
What principles govern all living systems?
Grow collective intelligence through self-awareness of what tacit knowledge you have strengths in and where you can use that to add value. Tacit and Explicit knowledge are valuable to organisations.
Confidence is not a personality type. It is the reward for work invested into navigation systems.
The only thing you can control is how you choose to be. But there are systems that help you bring your best state to the moment.
OODA, heuristics, algorithms — tools for complex choices under pressure.
Have you written down the most important decisions you need to act on?
What problem are you actually solving?
Build the path. Replace mystery with mechanism.
What is THE algorithm that makes your business work?
How do you turn a picture into a product?
Play the game master the feedback loops by recognizeing those that are vicious and create systems to bridge gap and optimize virtuous ones.
Hacker Laws, shortcuts for thinking that require constant reexamination and renewal.
Structure concepts for maximum comprehension flow — how to organize knowledge so people find what they need
You prompt the machine. The mantra prompts you.
What mathematical patterns recur across all domains?
How do you see the meta in the matter?
What resources and minerals are in greatest demand to build the future?
Three layers of making sense — taxonomy, nomenclature, and ontology
Every system — person, organization, economy — runs three interlocking loops. When all three harmonize, you experience flow. When one is off, you feel dis-ease — the signal to diagnose which loop needs attention.
What laws govern everything that moves and changes?
We don't live in reality. We live in our own pictures of reality — stories our mind runs about how the world is, was, will be. The map is all we ever experience.
What can't be reduced further?
The hardest problem is identifying what the most important problem to focus on is.
Problem identification is the highest-leverage skill in the game
Process Models extend Process Maps.
How to document, measure, and improve how work gets done
How do you build what the maps describe?
What is the state of things?
Continuous improvement requires three things: a template to fill in, a procedure to follow, and an artifact to produce. Each cycle improves all three.
Feedback loops can be vicious or virtuous. The same architecture amplifies both.
Questions to explore relationships, identify leverage points, and understand how changes cascade through complex systems
A picture is worth a 1000 words. What are the most useful templates for maximally effective communication of intent and function?
What is the cheapest test that proves your change works?
From hypothesis to platform - how knowledge compounds through layers
What happens when a tool reshapes the society that made it?
What if flow state, telco pricing, and agent architecture are the same optimization?
Do you coach players to play positions, or reimagine positions for players?
How do you earn the right to act decisively when it matters?
Develop systems of thinking to evolve thoughtful systems.
What does the same feedback loop look like across every domain on the site?
What if the compiler could tell you what to build next?
What kind of loop are you running?