Force Multipliers #8

"Most prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty" Virginia Satir Certainty. It's an interesting concept in the sense that the more you try and force short-term, detailed-driven certainty (dogmatic, rigid, and path driven), the more you drive down the long-term and dynamic cert...

Force Multiplier #7

Chat GPT-4 just came out and the FOMO has grown exponentially. Everyone is trying to figure out how they can make money with AI and/or how AI make take money out of their pockets by replacing them. I get it. But I don't share that perspective. True to the operating system underpinning The Guar...

#23 Assumptions

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times a thousand different ways: "Diet soda triggers fat storage hormones" is probably the most common. Let me ask you a question: If you flip a light switch on, does that turn the light on? No. It doesn't. If you have paid your electric bill an...

Opinion: SVB and The Adaptive Dilemma

I do not typically write opinion pieces like this, but it's worth taking the time, methinks The largest banking collapse since 2008 happened last week. Obviously, the damage is great and the fallout is still unknown. We will be talking about it from a fundamental perspective next week on "(Un)E...

Force Multipliers #6

A lot has happened this last week. Here is a quick recap: (Un)Exploitable Monday, we explored the explore-exploit dilemma/tradeoff with Unexploitable , a post that was written as a follow-up to the live call we did last Thursday. Dan and I decided to let people watch as we go through our daily...

#22 (Un)Exploitable

exploit verb make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource). People get really bent out of shape about pretty much everything these days. One of the things that really trigger people is precision in language. Specificity is intimidating to the monkey mind because the monkey mind wants ...

#21 Parallel v Waterfall

This will become a much longer article when I have the time to put it together properly. How To Distribute Your Resources: Waterfall vs Parallel distribution Training for The Guardian Academy . You can wait until the article is done, which will be complete sometime between the next 3 and 45 da...

#20 More Than You Are

"Live to learn, Give to Earn" My favorite part of the companies and programs we are running right now is the shift from creating good “customers” to empowering extraordinary creators.  The become a Guardian of the Guardian Academy, one must submit a capstone that the community votes on. If it is ...

Force Multipliers #5

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. - Dean Ornish One of the most powerful tools in our arsenal is what I call "The Science Of Hindsight" . The past does not predict the future, but it sure can tell us a lo...

#19 Can't Save Everybody

When I got into hostage negotiation I thought to myself I was going to save everyone. What I learned quickly is that you cannot save everybody, you can only save those that want to be saved. - Chris Voss Chris Voss is one of the best hostage negotiators that has ever lived. His book "Never Split...