Optimize Actions, Not Plans

Optimization is best spent on actions, not plans. Take action and then optimize the next rep. No plan survives contact with reality, so there's no point layering optimizations on scenarios that may not play out.

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Optimization is best spent on actions, not plans.

Take an action and then optimize the next rep.

Do it, and then do it incrementally better. Rinse & repeat.

The point of planning is really just to find the high-value global directions in which to take action and iterate.

But everybody who pushes themself to do hard stuff, especially stuff that’s never been done before, knows that no plan survives contact with reality.

So there’s really no point in layering optimizations on top of scenarios that you don’t even know will play out.

Yes, make sure the actions you’re taking, the problems you’re solving, are moving you in the a high-value direction you want to go.

But beyond that, just solve today’s problems today so that you can earn the right to think about tomorrow’s problems tomorrow.

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