There is a thing I’ve been practicing for years now.

But it is two-fold:

On paper it may look like I am a mess changing my opinion every minute.

In reality? It is a mess indeed!

But it’s a useful kind of chaos.

The kind that saves me from spending three weeks “committed” to a bad idea just because Past Me announced it with confidence.

The benefits are simple.

I get to be wrong faster (and cheaper).

Instead of dragging a bad idea for three weeks out of pride, I usually catch it by Wednesday. I still waste time, just in smaller, more affordable chunks.

Example: I try journaling like a monk. By day four, it’s just me writing fan fiction about the person I wish I was. I switch to one line: “What’s the one thing today?” Done. And yes, even that eventually died, quietly, like a houseplant I swore I’d water.

I don’t get stuck in decision glue.

A lot of my worst choices aren’t hard to fix. They’re just embarrassing to change. Updating my mind is how I escape the prison of “but I already said I would.”

Example: I decide I’ll follow a strict plan: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 5pm. Two weeks later my calendar laughs. I update to “four sessions minimum, five if life behaves”.

I learn in real time, not in hindsight theater.

I don’t wait for the post-mortem where we all pretend we “knew it all along.” I try to notice what’s off while the thing is still happening.

Example: I’m at a restaurant and I’m about to order what I always order, not because I love it, but because I’m scared of regret. I notice it and pick something new. Worst case, I learn. Best case, I upgrade my whole personality for $15.

I stop defending sunk costs like they’re a personality trait.

Old me would suffer just because I paid. Current me tries to learn the lesson and leave the rest.

Example: Google drops support for my old Nest. I buy an Ecobee based on reviews, because I love reviews the way some people love horoscopes. A few months later I sell it at a loss and switch back to the latest Nest. Life is good again. My house stoped arguing with me about temperature.

I stay curious instead of brittle.

When someone disagrees with me, I try to treat it like a puzzle, not a threat. Which is not my natural state. My natural state is: “How dare you be incorrect in my presence”.

Example: I get critique on my idea and my first instinct is to defend it like it’s my child. Instead, I ask, “What would have to be true for you to be right?”. Suddenly, it’s not a fight. It’s data.

And yes, from the outside, it still looks messy.

So I use one rule to keep it from turning into chaos cosplay:

I only change my mind when new information beats my old plan.

Not when my mood changes.

Not when someone’s louder.

Not when I’m hungry (which is adorable as a rule because I’m always hungry).

Sadly, I adapt.

Which is annoying.

But cheaper.

Till next time.

Random Ideas About Life - 5 min read.

This is basically a grab bag of life advice you can actually skim without needing a highlighter and a retreat in Bali. Short, sharp reminders about identity, direction, and showing up when you’re not “in the mood”.

Here’s why you need to have more bad ideas - 4 min read.

If you don’t have any good ideas, congrats - you haven’t made enough bad ones yet. This is a quick kick to start ugly and improve from there.

The Weirdest Advice That Genuinely Improved My Life - 1 min read.

The post’s claim is rude but true: average every day beats “amazing once a month”. Give yourself permission to be okay, then be okay relentlessly.

It’s a fun, readable tour of how thinkers, artists, and ordinary people used notebooks to get ideas out of their heads and into reality. You’ll finish it wanting to buy a notebook and pretend you’re organized, which is honestly half the battle.

How cool is that! It’s slightly lower floor as for me, but I’ll take it.

Decision Journal: He writes down big decisions and the rationale in the moment, because otherwise your “running dialogue” updates the story and you forget what you actually believed.

Timely Beats Perfect: He pushes time constraints on decisions and reminds teams that sometimes a good decision is a timely decision.

Anti-Debate Bias: He calls debating a horrible way to get to solutions because it trains people to defend positions instead of getting to the truth.

Focus on the Who: He says complex problems usually won’t be solved on a whiteboard by you, so the real work is picking who will solve it and how you’ll know they succeeded.

Board With Clear Asks: He says boards help more when you give them a clear task, like “help me hire these people” or “connect me with someone who’s solved this,” instead of asking for general advice.

Support DNA: He worked in customer support at Google answering phones, and he later leaned on that muscle of staying close to what users actually struggle with.

Catastrophically Small Metrics: He talked about emailing Pinterest to 200 friends and having about 100 open it, and he treated that tiny signal as real data.

Shame as Momentum: The fear of looking foolish became a weird kind of energy to keep building.

Collections Lens: He said he sees the world as people’s collections, which shaped Pinterest’s organization and what “useful” looks like to him.

Mainstream-First Distribution: He has said Pinterest caught on with his friends back in Iowa before it won over the Silicon Valley crowd, so he leaned into “regular people” channels first.

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