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Limit Your Options
Plus: 63 principles for living, Building in public, Science vs engineering and much more...
Luca Bersella
December 01, 2024
Hey everyone,
Welcome back to Stocks To Space, where I curate the best ideas, tools and resources I’ve found each week as I explore my curiosities.
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IDEAS
Limit Your Options
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h/t to James Clear for this week’s idea:
Limiting your options now will expand your opportunities in the long run because you can remain focused enough to master something.
Keeping your options open now will reduce your opportunities in the long run because you divide your attention and end up doing an average job on seven different things.
Are you falling into the pattern of always mastering one thing or always chasing the next thing?
Tattoo that to your brain.
INSIGHTS
1 Article
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Nabeel, the author of this brilliant piece, is currently a stealth startup founder but was previously at Palantir.
This is an incredible list of succinct, hard-hitting adages to live by. We should all read this in full, but for those who can’t, here are my top three favourites:
Be honest about whether something is learning or entertainment. Real learning is extremely hard and effortful. (Podcasts, pop science books, anything that’s a bit too digestible is more entertainment than real learning).
At some point in your life, work on a startup or at least a thing driven by a small group. Small group energy is amazing.
Any given “bet” you take is likely to fail. Success is making lots of “bets” and trying as hard as possible at each of them. The probability of success is higher the more bets you take and the better your execution per bet.
1 Post
building in public is over. the future is occult companies of unknowable size and influence hidden beneath a sea of LLCs so deep divine light can't even get through. cap tables so arcane its impossible to know if truth exists at all. no one knowing What Is Really Going On Here
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis)
1:51 PM • Nov 13, 2024
1 Video
THOUGHTS
Quote I’m Pondering
“In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.”
— Richard Hamming
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