Anyone Can Be Complicated. Simplicity? That’s Hard Imagine being able to do something, again and again Avoid a mental cloud of conflicts from distractions of biases and prejudices to disciplines of basic practice and persistence Adhere to a process after passions fade Anyone can be complicated, exciting Simplicity? That’s hard …

Acting On Hunches Comes After Mastering Inner Monsters Masters acting on hunches make it look easy repetition, rhyming, pattern recognition Still endure double-think + analysis paralysis What they’ve really mastered are inner monsters The task, ask, act, fact of their lives is to embrace doubt as part of each hunch …

How many tomorrows? We don’t know which brings the win, which is the last Only certainty: nothing will be won if nothing is done Randomness and dumb luck of the world is beyond us Nobody knows what each year brings We command the minutes How Many Tomorrows? If you’re lucky…

The Snowball, compounding of modest changes rolling down a gentle imperceptible slope for years The Avalanche, explosive transformations crack in a plane of ice covering a mountain peak It leads to a collapse that changes the valley below Live the first, survive the second one The reality of life is…

The LEVER, one of humanity’s first machines Force multiplier converting effort into work Every lever needs a key part to work: The FULCRUM Without it, no leverage Today’s lever is an idea, process, a system Its fulcrum is TIME It moves worlds, old ones, to make room for the new …

When nothing seems to help look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a 100 times without a single crack Yet at 101 times, it will split in two know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before The Stonecutter’s Final Blow …

There was a man who lived on a mountain Liked to be away where one could think Kept a record of what happened for clear thoughts Gave everything all the time it needed Real change does not end the same day it begins Be away from the confusion of things …

“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Perfection and the speed of light You keep cutting away at an endless eternal gap, at an aching pace, it never goes away It is a starship…

10 year deadline Earth orbit assembly? Rocket size of a battleship? Enter midlevel tech taking career risk A govt memo 9 pages long, single-spaced “somewhat as a voice in the wilderness” 2 small ships in lunar orbit Idea from 1916 Apollo 8 A Storyteller Sent Man To The Moon You…