I need a Cunning Plan
First year in like a decade that I’ve felt like I needed one. The blithe spirit approach looks unworkable for Reasons.
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Pie chart of types of years in a 100-year life
Takeoff: 10
Climbing: 10 (front-loaded)
Cruise control: 20
Stalling: 10
Lame duck/quitting/exiting: 10
Atemporality: 10
Cunning Plan: 5
Declining: 25 (back-loaded)
Free agents: move 10y from cruise control to cunning plan
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Only way to avoid repeated self-OODAing is to get rich.
For every $1 million in net worth, subtract 1 cunning plan year and add it to cruise control year.
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Weird but true: if you’re rich you don’t have to be cunning. It is sufficient to be smart. Strategery is for the underresourced. It’s like if you have the right tools and parts, repairs and maintenance are easy. You only have to get cunning and jugaad stuff if you don’t.
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