Strategy

The right strategy doesn’t always offer immediate rewards.

“Some projects benefit from early action. If you’re writing a book, it’s easy to spend a lot of time brainstorming titles and dreaming up an outline, but it’s better to simply write. The book discovers itself as you go. Yes, you’ll need to go back and organize things, but this is easier to do once you have material. The key is to act first and then... See more

“A way to think about it is, innovation requires variation. And in manufacturing—six sigma, all that stuff—you’re trying to reduce variation.

The fundamental manufacturing paradigm is to reduce variation, and the fundamental creative paradigm is to increase it.”

If you want me to go all in on you, you better be all in on what we’re doing together. If you’re not all in, if you are only kinda into it, I don’t want to work with you.

“Simple is nearly always better. But if it’s going to be complicated, then make sure the problem is worth the complexity. A great deal of time is wasted creating complex solutions to relatively unimportant problems.”

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

Do I need to spend more time searching for better information or do I need to spend more time acting on the information I already have? Is the bottleneck strategy or execution?