The Code.
Ten principles I run on. Stolen from the best — Stoics, founders, fathers.
Total Responsibility
You are the final authority on your life. To blame the market, your team, or your circumstances is to surrender your agency. Own the outcome.
Compound Consistency
Intensity is common; endurance is rare. Most success is doing the boring things well for a very long time.
Truth Over Comfort
A pleasant lie is a liability. Seek the cold, hard facts immediately. Reality does not care about your feelings.
Production Before Consumption
You were made to create, not passively absorb. Creation brings agency; consumption brings lethargy. Limit the noise.
Decade Thinking
Short-term optimization leads to long-term ruin. Make decisions your future self will thank you for in ten years.
Protect the Downside
Never bet what you cannot afford to lose. Survival is the prerequisite for success.
Action is Information
You cannot think your way out of a maze. Move to see the path. Correct course while in motion.
Quiet Competence
Let the results speak. If you have to announce your status, you don’t have it. Signal is silent.
Duty as Meaning
Happiness is a fleeting byproduct of doing your duty. Find the heaviest load you can carry, and carry it.
Simplicity
Complexity is often a mask for a lack of understanding. If you can’t explain your business on a napkin, you’re already in trouble.
Discipline is not a punishment.
It is a system for freedom.
Architecture > Hustle.