Operating Principles
- Physical Reality
- Natural law sets hard bounds. · Secure energy first; watts amplify everything. · Risk only what you can afford to lose.
- High-Freq Agency
- Run toward friction; stress reveals gradients. · Tight feedback compresses learning time. · Favor fat-tailed upside; time is irreplaceable.
- Leverage
- Cash flow and reputation fund autonomy. · Trust takes decades, burns in moments. · Information asymmetry converts to advantage.
- Execution
- Small teams maintain context, eliminate politics. · Reward contribution, not tenure. · Leaders set pace through visible work.
- Simplification
- Default to deletion of non-essential complexity. · Success breeds overhead; prune continuously. · Abandon failed models without attachment.