Category: Optionality
All the posts filed under "Optionality".
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10 Principles of Optionality For an Uncertain World
What is optionality? If you want a thorough answer, check out the big juicy book I spent the last couple of years writing.
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Getting Hacked and Getting Hard
CLEARANCE SALE! VANS SHOES CHEAP! I was as surprised as anyone to hear that I'd pivoted from blogging to hawking knock-off footwear on Facebook.
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Inevitable Coronavirus Post
If it costs nothing at all to mitigate a small chance of a big risk, then do it! Ignore anyone who makes fun of you for being 'paranoid', and don't wait for permission.
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The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation
Video games give you a clear pathway for leveling up into a muscle-bound hero, and impressing scantily-clad elven princesses with your Very Big Sword.
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Time Travel for Pleasure and Profit
Our meatsack bodies slavishly plod along at the precise rate of one second per second.
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The Optionality Approach to Getting Lucky
What is optionality? My favourite tool for finding juicy asymmetries between risk and reward, and creating your own luck.
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How to Make Your Own Luck
There’s no such thing as cosmic justice. But over the course of a lifetime, at least we can vaguely shuffle in the direction of getting what we deserve.
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Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas
The history of finance is a history of brains splattered on the pavement. Just how safe is the buy-and-hold index funds orthodoxy?
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Constraints That Liberate
Something I’ve learned the hard way is that you can absolutely have too much of a good thing. Unconstrained freedom is, well... kind of freaky, actually.
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Goals Gone Wild
There’s a huge body of evidence that goal setting works, which is why everyone refuses to shut up about it. But could it be that goals are too powerful?
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Meditations on Momentum
First, work your butt off to get some momentum behind you. Keep a watchful eye out for entropy. Then, focus your efforts on helping other people up.
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The Barbell Strategy: How Not to Be a Starving Artist
Living off ramen in your mom's basement while you wait for your genius business idea or novel to hit the big time is a dead end. It's time to get strategic.
