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the stoic philosopher Seneca: “He is a great man who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver; but he is equally great who uses silver as if it were earthenware. It is the sign of an unstable mind not to be able to endure riches.”
10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives
Jimmy Soni
“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”
— Harrington Emerson
First Principles for Product Managers – HelloPM
Ankit Shukla
2/ Decisions fall into a matrix of consequential vs. inconsequential and reversible vs. irreversible.
Break big, irreversible, and consequential decisions into the smaller ones – consequential & reversible, irreversible & inconsequential, and reversible & inconsequential.