Principles

Principle: a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.

• Effectiveness over efficiency.
• Avoid spending your time on negative thoughts.
• Do not spend too much time thinking about hypothetical situations.
• Always improve.
• Always adapt.
• Surround yourself with positive people.
• Do not engage in fruitless debates or one-sided confrontations.
• Accept that nothing is perfect.
• Know what you want and don't want.
• Do not delay difficult decisions indefinitely.
• Learn new things everyday.
• Work on fewer things to get them to completion.
• Spend no time complaining.
• Spend time working on interesting things.
• Have people depend on you less and less.
• Work on things that matter.
• Avoid repeating yourself constantly.
• Continuously optimize.
• Have a structured process for everything you do that is written down and updated as it changes.
• Always remain positive.
• Put your time where you get rewarded for the effort.
• Minimize your regret.
• Invert, always invert.
  • Spend less time trying to be brilliant and more time trying to avoid obvious stupidity.
  • https://fs.blog/2013/10/inversion/
• Always write down why.
• Priority, priority, priority.
• Focus on input, not output.
• Copy, transform, combine.
• Use analogies when reasoning about complex ideas.
  • Sometimes equivalents make it easier to reason about a problem when translated into a different domain.
• Prefer action over a perfect decision.
• Always plan, even if you don't end up using the plan.
• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress no matter how slow.
• Stop starting, start finishing.
• Plan with the most realistic scenario in mind.
• Plan by preventing the worst scenarios from happening.
• Spend your time with happiness generators, stay away from happiness drainers.
• Always limit how much time you spend dwelling on problems and mistakes.