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Comment on Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (without Chasing Shiny Objects) by Taylor Pearson

Great questions!

1. Just had a call with someone last week that brought this up. I believe you have to pick a single north star. You could pick one that covers multiple business if they are synergistic, but I think you still have to pick one main focus. That doesn’t mean you can’t get creative with the interpretation as long as you don’t lie to yourself.

The most common situation I see (hopefully this is yours) is one business is the cash cow and pays the bills and the other is the growth op...

Comment on Jesus Marketing: How I Sold 5000 Books in Four Weeks As a First Time Author (With Less Than 700 Email Subscribers) by Sean Marshall

Wow! What a detailed post – it took me 2 hours to read/study/take notes on! Thank you!

As some quick marketing feedback for you, I first came across you and your book during your launch. I can’t remember who exactly that I heard about your launch from but it was successful I’m about to dive into the book and am super excited to hear your take on The End of Jobs.

Thanks again for a great post. Looking forward to connecting more this year. Cheers

Comment on Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (without Chasing Shiny Objects) by danh25

Great piece! Couple of questions.
1.What if you have multiple businesses? Would you pick 1-3 quarterly goals for each business?
2. You mention this “How: Copy from Question 5. You brainstormed a ton of possible options. It’s now time to pick the key ones, then prioritize them. When I do monthly and weekly reviews, I always have a huge list of ideas, but am only working on the top 1-3.” I am probably being an idiot, but where is “Question 5.”

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by James Phillips

Reading Osinga, I had a lot of fun drawing parallels between Boyd’s theories on different kinds of systems, Taleb’s ideas on antifragility, Munger’s ideas on mental models, and Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. It seems a handful of people stumbled onto the same problem, but in completely different domains.

I finished Coram’s biography a couple of months ago. It’s a great read. It doesn’t dive real deep into any of the implications of Boyd’s work, but it does give you an idea of the impact t...

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by Taylor Pearson

Thank you! I think the good to great question is actually more interesting. You may be the tenth person that has told me how good that book is. Need to work on my reading prioritization skills.

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by James Phillips

I read Certain to Win on Venkat’s recommendation earlier this year and loved it, especially since it’s almost directly applicable to my job. I’ve got two other members of my team at work reading it. It’ll be interesting to see if we can put a team together that operates according to the principles Richards lays out in his book. If you’re looking to go deeper down the John Boyd rabbit hole, I just finished reading Osinga’s Science, Strategy, and War…his attempt to provide a written explanation...

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by Stan Leloup

I recently picked up Josh Waitzkin’s “Art of Learning” and I loved it.

Most books on learning focus on 80/20 (ala Tim Ferriss) but this one asks a different question : What’s the difference between a good performer and the best ?

Actionnable and unusual concepts wrapped in an engaging story – and written by an author with undeniable chops.

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by Taylor Pearson

Re: families – There’s definitely a niche worth exploring there. Have been thinking about how to talk more about families doing this stuff (there are plenty, they’re just quiet!).

Will add Stuffocation and Free Will to my lists, thanks!

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by Chris

nothing wrong if you identify with the concepts and explanations provided by the author:

“I smugly breezed through the “take your career seriously” and “go to the
gym” chapters until the relationship chapter hit me like a brick to the
face and caused me to get serious about companionship as part of a
meaningful life and a skill set that has to be cultivated.”

There are dozens of people who it very differently. Some are very happy, healthy, and successful by marrying young while others are as...

Comment on My Ten Most Influential Reads of 2015 by What I Learnt on Wall Street

Great stuff Taylor. My favorites this year were ‘Pebbles of Perception’ by Laurence Endersen and ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller. Of the ones you mentioned, I thought ‘What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars’ was really well written and had an important message.
Thank you