Agency

First, we must gather information, and collect our puzzle pieces. Then we must assemble the edges, building the container for our work. In this way, action is the precursor to creativity. Not the other way around.

We must act our way into creativity, not think our way in.

Perpetual motion starts with motion

• Shorten your feedback loops

• Iterate faster

• Increase clockspeed (circle back faster)

Perfect is the enemy of done

Inaction is the enemy of action

Inaction in search of perfection is the enemy of action

It's easier to give/apply advice to a thing that exists

To go with the flow is to seek equilibrium.

Excerpt from a remarkable final shareholder letter:

“Staving off death is a thing that you have to work at. Left to itself – and that is what it is when it dies – the body tends to revert to a state of equilibrium with its environment. If you measure some quantity such as the temperature, the acidity, the water content or the electrical potential in a living body, you will typically find that it is markedly different from the corresponding measure in the surroundings. Our bodies, for instance, are usually hotter than our surroundings, and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential. When we die the work stops, the temperature differential starts to disappear, and we end up the same temperature as our surroundings.”