Discussion: Learning from Chess about Thinking (What is a good idea?)
Avoid change for the sake of change.
Garry Kasparov • How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
Compound interest in knowledge capital does not accrue through passive reading. You need a place to store your knowledge, like a commonplace book, and an investing strategy, like the Zettelkasten method.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
First, you must have a variety of tools for fighting your own myopia and for guiding your own attention. Second, you must develop the ability to question your own judgment. If your reasoning cannot withstand a vigorous attack, your strategy cannot be expected to stand in the face of real competition. Third, you must cultivate the habit of making an
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Every time you make a move, you must consider your opponent’s response, your answer to that response, and so on. A tactic ignites an explosive chain reaction,