Quotes About Flexibility

We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations.

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

Why anything with optionality has a long-term advantage

Today's materials allow us to avoid such constraint.

when you leave people alone, they tend to settle for practical reasons.

The more uncertainty, the more role for optionality to kick in, and the more you will outperform.

The strategy for the discoverers and entrepreneurs is to rely less on top-down planning and focus on maximum tinkering and recognizing opportunities when they present themselves.

reality doesn't care about winning arguments: survival is what matters.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

Never buy when you can rent the three Fs

Optionality is Promethean, narratives are Epimethean—

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future—but this is not necessarily bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

these careers face a continuous supply of these stressors that make them adjust opportunistically.

He can work any hours he likes, travel at a whim, and engage in all manner of personal pursuits.

Something has worked in the past, until—well, it unexpectedly no longer does, and what we have learned from the past turns out to be at best irrelevant or false, at worst viciously misleading.

Another way to see the beastly aspect of schedules and rigid projections is to think in limit situations. Would you like to know with great precision the date of your death? Would you like to know who committed the crime before the beginning of the movie? Actually, wouldn't it be better if the length of movies were kept a secret?

sometimes life requires compromises:

those who can drive manual shifts can always drive automatic, but the reverse is not true.

Now, what if you were going to Chicago, where you are told that the weather, while being 60 degrees, will nevertheless vary by about 30 degrees? You would have to pack winter and summer clothes.

when done right, the job allows considerable free time.

Where is the role of optionality in this?

Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)