Power is accumulated through the courage to reduce optionality.
The biggest power moves in history: Cortes burning his boats or JFK setting the moon landing target.
Those decisions lowered optionality, increased insecurity, and irrevocably committed to a specific course.
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had some good post on this that I now can't find (maybe paywalled)
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I thought it was from a newsletter maybe a year or so ago (I think breaking smart)
Couldn't dig it up though so maybe I'm wrong and it is from somewhere else.
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