After a couple of years (!) of complaining and bitching and shooting down ideas, I finally reached a powerful, yet obvious realization: There was no perfect plan. No perfect path existed. No matter what there was going to be uncertainty. There were going to be risks. Mistakes were going to be made. I was going to be uncomfortable. I was going to lo

Sufficient smarts. Not necessarily brilliance, but at least an ability to apply critical thinking skills. Lots of discipline. Distractions are death by a thousand cuts. I’m writing this right now on an island. It cost money and time to get here, but it’s the only way I can get this book out of my head onto paper. I fly into SDQ because it’s a quick

Doing long-term thinking well requires identifying when you’re being patient versus just stubborn. Not an easy thing to do. The only solution is knowing the very few things in your industry that will never change and putting everything else in a bucket that’s in constant need of updating and adapting.