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...