Spending some of the holiday quiet time auditing my personal operating system.

Starting with the first principles:

• Leverage
• Efficiency
• Focus
• Constraint
• Simplicity
1/ Leverage

I have two finite resources: time and energy.

I want to direct these finite resources towards infinite assets.

The more effectively I store these, the quicker they compound.
2/ Efficiency

I can’t spend all my time and energy on high-leverage work.

So with everything low-leverage, I want to be as efficient as possible.

This means:

• Automating
• Delegating
• Creating SOPs
• Batching

This frees up time and energy for high-leverage work.
3/ Focus

In taking on projects, I work only on as many as I can promote.

When I’m working on tasks, I want to at any time point to the exact task I’m working on.

I also want to use a timer as much as possible.
4/ Constraint

The wisest people have rules for themselves.

“Freedom” is overwhelming. I need some constraints to narrow the scope of what I do.

This means:

• Having frameworks for saying no
• Have rules for things I don’t do
• Making decisions that eliminate decisions
5/ Simplicity

I remove anything that creates friction.

I say this on paper more than I actually do it. So this one is my biggest focus in improving my systems.
Should I build this out into a longer post?

These are my first principles on operating.

I have more on:

• Personal productivity
• Setting goals / values
• Health
• Wealth
• Relationships

Lemme know!

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