Reminders

At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one option among many.

Find fulfillment in this chapter, knowing you might need to find it again later. The impermanence creates freedom where permanence creates pressure.

Maybe most importantly, a Personal Business is properly scaled. It doesn’t have to be small, but it should grow at a pace that optimizes for its own resilience rather than to dominate a market.

Most problems are solvable. But that doesn’t mean the solution will look like you hope it will; there will be trade offs.

Commitment issues aren’t about the options. They’re about the operator.

When you know what you want, most choices eliminate themselves.

Many frustrations are the result of unspoken expectations. Before you get too annoyed, make sure you are clearly expressing your thoughts.

People think good decision-making is about being right all the time. It’s not. It’s about lowering the cost of being wrong and changing your mind.

When the cost of mistakes is high, we’re paralyzed with fear. When the cost of mistakes is low, we can move fast and adapt.

Make mistakes cheap, not rare.

The luxury of knowing is rarer than you think, and we probably underestimate just how much that impacts our day to day lives and the lives of those closest to us who aren’t so lucky.

“You can attract luck simply by telling people what you are working on.”