Glossary
A Working Vocabulary
Automation
Removing process without removing thought. Or: the thing you build when you are too busy to notice you shouldn't be.
Itinerary
A plan that prevents you from noticing what you actually came for.
Pivot
What a founder calls a correction after calling it a strategy. Sometimes they are the same thing.
Pressing trigger
The moment when the cost of waiting exceeds the cost of committing.
Presence
The thing automation removes when you aren't paying attention to what you are automating.
Self-awareness
Necessary but not sufficient for behaviour change. The vocabulary is not the cure.
Wrong turns
How you find the places worth finding in an unfamiliar city. The technique generalises.
Systems thinking
A holistic approach that focuses on how a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time within larger contexts.