Shelf / If It Lives in Your Head
If It Lives in Your Head
Front Matter
Part I — The Creed
- Family A: Definition
- "One cannot act upon that which has not been defined."
- "Define every variable to its deepest identifiable condition."
- "Don't make the specific unnecessarily vague."
- "The more we standardize the variables and reduce ambiguity, the less complicated things become."
- Family B: Repeatability
- "Do the same thing the same way every time and you'll get a consistent result."
- "Almost everything in life can be reduced to a quantifiable formula."
- Family C: Systems
- "If it lives in your head, it should live in the 'system.'"
- "We shouldn't PULL information, we should PUSH information."
- "An efficient system minimizes the amount of user input while maximizing the amount of automated output."
- Family D: Purpose and Limits
- "The more we reduce life's decisions to quantifiable formulas, the more automated we can make the simple tasks — freeing the human mind for true, ambitious deep thinking."
- "Where a data-based decision will not produce a genuinely better result, leave it manual."