there's alpha in lying, but only once. and the cost is that from that point on, you have to fight to even capture the beta.

order of operations when I realize I'm in way too deep: stabilize my Present first. next, settle up with my Past. only then is it tenable to plan for my Future. trying to do them out of order will cause none of them to get done.

"yeah I could get out of a wet paper bag. a dry one though? idk, they didn't cover that on the exam."

I don't understand people who are indecisive. it presumably comes from some desire to optimize? but surely after one attempt at being indecisive, an optimizer realizes that doing something would be better than doing nothing.

insane alpha in capitulating

bro you're still doing inbox zero? I went inbox negative in 2018 and never looked back.