Principles to live by
"Principles to live by" sounds, I dunno, really pretentious, something your favorite tech-dude-cum-philosopher might say. It's something of an aspirational title, a "wouldn't it be great if I lived by these" sort of thing.
Rules to live by feels wrong. Rules have a complicated relationship with consequences when you don't follow them. That's not what this is.
ANYWAY 🧐
My hope here is that by organizing these in a list on a dedicated page on my website, it will lend the necessary "gravitas" for my brain to take these principles seriously over time. Mostly this is a list of important ideas I'd like to remember over time, to check in on and bring myself back to. Something of a more potent digital cat poster, if you will.
Hopefully you get some use out of these too. ✌️
- Play infinite games
- Leverage compounding
- Move fast
- Think outside the box (second & n-order thinking)
- Practice 5 whys
- Strive for depth
- Be compulsive
- "Behavior is a function of the Person in their Environment, or B = f (P,E)" - Atomic Habits
- Happiness is the difference between expectation and outcome, or
Happiness = Reality - Expectation - Life is short. Take big swings.
- Focus on inputs more than outputs. Related: Thinking in Systems