The year of exponential growth
My focus for the upcoming year is exponential growth in self-development, career and social relationships simultaneously.
Implementation will follow my consistent, compounding and cascading framework for exponential growth. I’ll define consistent, compounding and cascading positive impact as it relates to self-development, career and social relationships:
Consistent - People, places and actions that yield consistent positive utility of different degrees without negative variation in self-development, career and social relationships.
Compounding - Compounding benefits with each iteration. Greater iteration and repetition leads to 1^x growth in utility, where x > 1.
Cascading - People, places and actions that lead to positive effects in self-development, career and social relationships simultaneously.
In concrete terms, I’ll do the following:
Repeat things I’m better at than other people
Engage in long-term and collaborative social strategies
Maintain a mental state of engaged awareness
Operate out of environments where strengths are amplified
Eliminating everything else
Repeat things I’m better at than other people
Repeating things I’m better at than other people puts me in the most advantageous position possible. There are a two core categories I’ve identified.
Socializing
Writing
I am a specialist when it comes to socializing. I enjoy collecting psychographic and longitudinal data on people. I enjoy talking about applied psychology, relationships and business strategy. The optimal socializing strategy is one in which I can integrate insights from first party psychographic and longitudinal data in spaces where the topic of conversation is applied psychology, relationships and business strategy. I will coalesce my social strategy into INTJ Fund which meets all of the conditions.
Writing is a three step process of gathering inspiration, organizing ideas and editing. I enjoy thinking about psychology, business strategy and efficiency optimization. Exponential growth means writing about one of these three topics every day. A new initiative will be writing books. One book will be a guide to relationships. The other book will be about frontier software technologies (spatial computing and AI).
Engage in long-term and collaborative social strategies
Most people have a short-term orientation focused on single turn games. This makes people, places and activities that provide short-term incentives highly competitive. Few people are interested in or capable of executing long-term, multi-event strategies. This makes long-term strategies a better area of focus by virtue of having no competition.
Collaborative social strategies incorporating a high density of introverts represent another opportunity. The vast majority of people that organize groups and by extension collaborative strategies are extroverts.
On the nature of trust with introverts - it is important to be cognizant that trust thresholds come from multiple factors. It is a gross mistake to interpret it is as the trust between the person posing the question and the recipient of the question. Also of critical importance is the trust provided by the environment.
Environmental factors refer to other people that can hear the answer. Introverts might trust the person asking the question but still give a ‘Low Trust’ response if there are parties in the room the introvert does not trust. It is critical to keep in mind that for some introverts give responses based on the least trusted person in the space.
Many extroverts have a tendency towards “more is better” for groups. This same attitude makes it so there is very little competition when it comes to collaborative social strategies targeting introverts.
Combining long-term execution and collaboration between introverts presents the greatest opportunity. The difficulty of execution and low familiarity will serve as a moat that will kill off the majority of imitators before they even start. This intersection will come into play for INTJ Fund which I will elaborate more upon in the future.
Maintain a mental state of engaged awareness
The biggest mistake people make is asking questions where they don’t care what the answer is. This reduces the engagement level of both the speaker and the recipient of the question. I’ve been asking the same question to everyone I meet for about three years now.
“Do you know your Myers Briggs type?”
I will continue to ask that question because I want to know the answer and it makes me engaged. Here are some questions you’ll hear me ask because I want to know the answer:
What would you like to experience in augmented reality? Why?
What could AI do to make your life better? Why?
What is something you strongly believe is true that other people do not believe?
What are you better at than anyone you know?
Operate out of environments where strengths are amplified
This is an area where I intend on conducting more search. As an idea, my goal is be in environments where things are always in my favor. If things are not in my favor, then I will leave. If I stay, I will change the environment until everything is rigged in my favor and my strengths are amplified. This can be through composition of people or change of enviornment.
Eliminating everything else
Everything else is a distraction that I will remove.
I’m interested exponential growth in self-development, career and social relationships simultaneously. If you have ideas or strategies on how to achieve this, let me know! I’m happy to brainstorm and have conversations about this topic with everyone!
