Force Multipliers

Force multipliers can be extraordinary engines of leverage and growth. Here’s some abstract concepts that I aspire to develop in my life.

Multipliers🔗

Flywheel effect🔗

Keep pushing in a consistent direction until the flywheel kicks in. From then on, the work is easy.

Bicycle effect🔗

A bicycle helps travel faster than walking. The added bonus is we can do more for lower energy.

Iteration speed🔗

Every minute spent setting up for the iteration, is a minute of iteration wasted.

Unregulated work🔗

Arguably, working in unregulated niches allows the best breathing room for ideas. Think why Silicon Valley is what it is. Or think why software is eating the world. By regulation, I mean any central system in place to keep you in check. Crudely, call it bureaucracy and run away as much as possible.

Asymmetric upsides🔗

I’ve realized that the most productive-looking people have found a knack for doing work that has low downside and disproportionately high upside.

Strategies🔗

The Spherical Cow🔗

A classic approach to prove things about complex phenomena is to consider extreme cases first. Extreme cases are simpler to analyse and build up from.

Other Public Lists🔗

15 of the most useful razors by George Mack on Twitter, is a fun read.

Some Advice Gathered from People Smarter than Me by Sasha Chapin.