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30 Dec 20, 31 tweets, 9 min read
1/ In Dec 2020, I decided to write 30 screenshot essays in 30 days on principles and mental models for early employees/leaders.

The aim of this exercise is to improve my writing and develop a content production system.

Recapping the essays I wrote over 30 days.
2/ To accomplish huge goals, break them up into micro habits. Use the little wins from little habits to achieve the goals.

3/ Like a portfolio of investments to handle risk, build a portfolio of careers. Develop skills for a multi career path.

4/ Hone the skill of critical thinking intentionally. It is the single investment that can give a huge return.

5/ Be consistent with some flexibility built-in. When unable to allocate time, reduce the scope of your work instead of not doing anything.

6/ Keep your calendar fluid and build redundancy so that you can move the scheduled tasks.

7/ Communicate your ideas clearly with your peers and leadership.

8/ Have civil debates with your team and invite dissent to get diverse perspectives.

9/ Keep procrastination at bay and get things done with these techniques.

10/ Learn to work around continuous meetings by getting few things done in between.

11/ Be aware of which type of excellence you wish to pursue and work towards that to achieve success.

12/ Keep burnout at bay by prioritizing the right work to do.

13/ Enter a state of flow to maximize your output.

14/ Have a good balance between an optimistic and pessimistic mindset to survive testing times.

15/ Learning and Doing strategy is a loop. One influences the other. Don't hesitate to get your hands dirty and implement your ideas.

16/ Have clear thinking while making decisions. Good understanding of biases helps in avoiding missteps.

17/ Don't confuse the map with the territory - no map can capture the complete nuances of a territory, we need to discover it ourselves.

18/ First principles thinking is a great mental tool. New avenues open up when you go back to the fundamentals.

19/ Identify and operate in your circle of competence. In areas outside your excellence, collaborate with others.

20/ Run thought experiments with multiple scenarios to come up with plausible ideas.

21/ Don't stop at immediate effects of your decisions. Think of the consequences of consequences to make a better judgement.

22/ Math and logic are great thinking tools to think through uncertain situations with incomplete information.
23/ Think backwards from failure when solving hard problems.

24/ Go for the simpler explanation among other possibilities (with everything else well explained).

25/ Have empathy and attribute mistakes to oversight over malicious intent.

26/ Identify points of high leverage and prioritize them for execution.

27/ Adapt. Adapt. Adapt. Remember that it takes a lot of effort to stay in the same place in a changing world.

28/ It is ok to deviate from previous thought processes and commitments to adapt to new situations.

29/ We tend to overestimate our ability to make right judgement. We don't always know what is coming. Be humble.

30/ Stories oversimplify facts and cause us to derive overly-simple and flawed conclusions. Be alert.

31/ Avoid picking evidence selectively to confirm your own beliefs.

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