Notes
Essays and atomic ideas. Some are durable, some are wrong, all are written in my own voice. Newest first.
- Hello, world · 30 Apr 2026
- Karma yoga — act fully, release the fruit · 18 Apr 2026
- Manage energy, not time — energy is volatile, time is fixed · 18 Apr 2026
- Negative capability — the trained ability to sit in uncertainty without grasping for closure · 18 Apr 2026
- OODA is about tempo, not decision quality · 18 Apr 2026
- Theory of Constraints — the one bottleneck that limits everything else · 18 Apr 2026
- Antifragility means gaining from disorder, not just surviving it · 25 Mar 2026
- Wu wei — the most effective action has no controller behind it · 23 Mar 2026
- Resilience requires redundancy, not single points of control · 16 Mar 2026
- Self-sufficiency compounds — each pillar strengthens the others · 16 Mar 2026
- A sharp edge maintained regularly outlasts a neglected one by decades · 16 Mar 2026
- Catastrophe planning must happen before the catastrophe · 11 Mar 2026
- Domain expertise is the moat AI cannot replicate · 11 Mar 2026
- Commitment architecture replaces willpower · 8 Mar 2026
- Environment design drives behaviour more than willpower · 8 Mar 2026
- Never miss twice — the one rule above all others · 8 Mar 2026
- Sleep is the master lever — it multiplies every other effort · 8 Mar 2026