Mental models, repeatable systems, decision tools
14 insights
Good taste is following the rules. Great taste is earning the right to break them.
Decide what to say, blindly copy, learn the rules, then study the history.
Deprivation is the mother of invention. When you can't buy the solution, you build a better one.
If you go all in on an 87% hand and lose, you still made the right call.
They had a data scientist for a decade. They never once did what the numbers told them to do.
Multiply the probability of each outcome by its payoff. The option with the highest expected value wins — not the one that feels best.
Coming up with ideas is easy. The real skill is a framework to filter them — marketability, personal experience, and adjacent company revenue.
AI collapsed the build cost. TikTok solved distribution. The iPhone app gold rush is back.
Strip away what you want to be building — what's actually working?
Do I have a growth problem or a management problem? No system fixes a growth problem.
The prolific person, not the perfectionist, produces the breakthrough.
Is the advice the best available? Are they lying about who they are?
Your downside is capped. Your upside isn't. Start acting like it.
A tiny minority of inputs will drive almost all of your outcomes.