If you're waiting to write until you've figured it out, you're never going to figure it out. - Dickie Bush

Measure twice, cut once leads to too much measuring and not enough cutting.

Start cutting and measure as you go.

Leverage and compounding are life-saving concepts.

The goal: understand them so well that you become physically ill when they're not working for you.

The two enemies of creativity:

Money worries and other people's drama.

Corollary: the most creative people seek financial security and give no mental bandwidth to other people's bullshit.