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“The purpose of the margin of safety is to render the forecast unnecessary.”

Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

You want to ask energy-enhancing questions that get you engaged in the information. Ask yourself, “How is this relevant and applicable to my life right now? How will this information help me achieve my goals? How can I apply this information to improve my work?

For example: Let’s do bookkeeping: Tips: Bookkeeping tips for small businesses to save an extra $2,500 in 2026 in bookkeeping expenses Stats: Three stats that show why bookkeeping is one of the best expenses a small business can incur Steps: Five steps to get your books in order for your accountant come tax season Lessons: Three lessons I learned

By shifting from his own goals (getting clients) to serving musicians with a specific problem at scale (Remember: people follow you because you are useful), Noa transformed his struggling practice into a thriving business serving an audience of over 50,000 subscribers.

on metalabeling – i.e., finding the probability of profit of your own simple basic trading strategy, and not to use it to predict the market directly. Why?

was in love with the result—the image of me on stage, people cheering, me rocking out, pouring my heart into what I was playing—but I wasn’t in love with the process. And because of that, I failed at

Since we can’t improve our people-reading skills that much, we have to focus our efforts on making others more readable.

But oh how difficult it can be to apply either of these principles—the discounting of emotion or the need to never make exceptions,