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    1. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      2/ Once u have to choose what to do, you can start killing two birds with one stone, postponing or advancing, outsourcing and parallelizing, down and upscoping, using different forms of leverage

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    2. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      3/ What you accomplish can only become more than the sum of its parts if you’re exercising agency in choosing the parts, and their sequence

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    3. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      4/ I suspect this rises exponentially; the higher the ratio between [what you could do] and [what you do] the greater the opportunities for strategic thinking and acting

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    4. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      5/ The number of combinatorial sequences of tasks explodes geometrically, as each task links to (thus potentially enables) more and more other tasks

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    5. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      6/ This is the basic problem with “pulling back” or “simplifying” your workload when you feel overwhelmed. The first commitments you kill are the highest leverage ones, because they’re furthest out on an exponential graph

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    6. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      7/ What makes this difficult of course is you have to handle emotional consequences of completing smaller and smaller % of what you could theoretically do. Feels like you’re getting less and less productive at first

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    7. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      8/ You have to make the switch from quantity to quality of actions completed. Once you get good at choosing quality ones, you ramp back up on quantity again (and also outsource, collaborate, crowdsource lowest complexity tasks)

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    8. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      9/ Next step is to get really good at meta tasks: packaging up projects w/ clear deliverables, influencing outcomes w/ quick light touches, inspiring and motivating ppl who don’t have to work for you, creating extraneous opportunities for ppl who work with you beyond $

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    9. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      20/ Curent frontier I’m at: how to outsource project GENESIS to contractors, while holding quality standards, dividing income from project, and giving them access to core company functions (like newsletter, blog, budgets) w/out making too big of mistakes

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    10. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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      21/ Staying in constant communication seems necessary, which is a challenge to my usual long work sessions of deep concentration

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 6 May 2018
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      Replying to @fortelabs

      A) what happened to points 10-19? B) much of what you’re talking about seems to be operations scaling, not strategy per se. It turns into strategy when positive spillover exceeds direct effect. An example is doing what you said but with a view to unleashing a network effect.

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        2. ben mosior‏ @HiredThought 6 May 2018
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          Being stuck in the gap between not having enough to do and having too much to do can be weird. But once you're on the other side... If strategy is about decision-making, then it feels like you finally get to make some decisions.

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        3. ben mosior‏ @HiredThought 6 May 2018
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          (Ignoring, you know, all the decisions you had to make up to this point.)

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        2. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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          Whoops. I must’ve skipped...9. I see ops and strategy so deeply intertwined, maybe bec of TOC. It’s like I’m trying to create network effect in a small world subnetwork by scaling number of nodes (tasks) almost arbitrarily, instead of collaborators (which is way more expensive)

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        3. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 6 May 2018
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          I distinctly feel we have smthg like network effects in our merry band of 10 loose collaborators. Or at least emergent effects

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