Most failures aren’t caused by bad people. They’re caused by misaligned incentives.
→FIELD NOTES
Public reasoning.
No performance.
Short notes on systems, incentives, execution and long-horizon decisions.
If the downside is existential, you don’t optimize.
→If it can’t be executed under constraints, it’s not a plan — it’s imagination.
→Compounding advantages are built in periods of boredom, not excitement.
→You can’t reason your way out of incentives you refuse to see.
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