Systems compound; sprints don't
Two weeks of heroics buys you two weeks. A boring system you actually keep buys you the rest of the decade.
ReadEntrepreneur and builder. This is the open half of my notebook — the ideas that survived being argued with, kept here so I can start where I finished.
Ideas are cheap until you fund one with your calendar. A note on why my best year came from a shorter list.
Read the noteTwo weeks of heroics buys you two weeks. A boring system you actually keep buys you the rest of the decade.
ReadWorking through Donella Meadows on where to intervene in a system — and where I have been pushing on the wrong lever in my own.
ReadThe advice is half right. Some readiness is vanity. Some of it is the only thing between you and a mess you can't undo.
ReadNot for an audience. For the version of me who has to make this decision again in three years and won't remember why.
ReadNotes from getting hiring wrong often enough to finally notice the pattern.
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