Thought poking
Words and ideas that poke your brain and make ya go huh
Thought poking
A good plan shouldn’t be so rigid that it can’t be interrupted by something better.
Aidan • The Problem With Always Making the Right Choice
Optimization creates progress, but it can also narrow the range of things that are allowed to happen to you. And if you’re not careful, you end up protecting the system you built at the expense of experiences that might have changed it for the better.
Aidan • The Problem With Always Making the Right Choice
That small red thread is a quiet acknowledgement of the human hand in the process. A reminder that these jeans aren’t just assembled - they’re made.
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Assembled vs made—powerful
Access has been solved.
The advantage now is:
In a world where everyone can enter, the edge shifts to those who take the time to understand what they’re entering into.
The advantage now is:
- judgment
- patience
- discipline
- restraint
- knowing when not to participate
In a world where everyone can enter, the edge shifts to those who take the time to understand what they’re entering into.
Aidan • Access Is Cheap. Competence Isn’t.
Access creates opportunity. Efficacy determines results.
Access Is Cheap. Competence Isn’t.
System-changers almost always do better.
They end up wealthier, healthier, calmer, and more fulfilled—not because they’re superior, but because they stopped fighting the machine and changed the machine.
Aidan • The world you want requires inputs you don't
Be a systems-changer
Solve problems, not symptoms!
Symptom-Fixer vs System-Changer—who are you?
Change the inputs to make meaningful change
Your inputs are your life.
Your outcomes are just the receipt.
Your outcomes are just the receipt.
Aidan • The world you want requires inputs you don't
We’ve optimized for comfort now instead of correction over time .