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What I Believe
These are the first principles that guide how I build products, think about technology, and approach the problem of individual agency.
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Everyone's optimal path is different
What works for most won't work for all. Individual variance matters more than population statistics. Expert advice is a starting point, not a prescription.
You can't control what you can't measure
Agency requires visibility. Without measurement, you're flying blind. The first step to improving anything is knowing where you actually are.
Expert knowledge is useless if it's inaccessible to implement
The gap between knowing what to do and being able to do it is massive. Tools should bridge that gap, not widen it with complexity.
Life is a series of experiments
We should have a lab notebook. Finance, health, relationships, work—you're constantly testing hypotheses. Without tracking results, you'll repeat the same mistakes.
The best tools make complexity disappear
Not more manageable—disappear. If your tool requires me to understand the underlying complexity, you haven't solved the problem.
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Willpower is finite
Good systems make the right choice the easy choice. Design for discipline, don't rely on motivation. Build friction into bad decisions, not good ones.
Measurement without judgment enables honest experimentation
Tools that shame you when you fail create incentives to stop measuring. The goal is learning, not perfection.
The goal isn't optimization—it's alignment
Being perfectly efficient at the wrong things is meaningless. First figure out what you actually value, then build systems that align with those values.
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True agency comes from understanding your own patterns
Not following expert rules. My dad needed to see that he'd made the same mistake twice. I needed to see which diets actually worked for my body. Memory is power.
Data without action is just noise
Measurement is only valuable if it leads to better decisions. Dashboards are worthless if they don't change behavior. Insight must lead to action.
"We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric."
— Charlie Munger
This quote captures my entire philosophy. The obvious is hard to remember without systems.
Disagree with something?
I'm always refining these beliefs through conversation and experience. If you see something differently, I'd love to hear your perspective.