#11 Technical Gains | 2024

End of year reflection ///Our mission: is to help technical practitioners achieve and maintain mastery of a long-lasting knowledge work practice. One that is highly adaptive and which consistently harnesses the evolving capability of digital tools.

#10 Technical Gains | Multi-disciplinary Thinking

Multi-disciplinary, first principles knowledge is highest quality. /// Structure knowledge and mental models from multiple disciplines into a latticework. /// Building this competency in digital tools accelerates our core technical domain.

#8 Technical Gains | Leverage

Build specific knowledge → Design for leverage → Add digital tools → Apply. /// Leverage comes with responsibility.

#7 Technical Gains | Deliberate Practice

Take an intentional approach to managing knowledge. /// Choose healthy boundaries for your practice. /// Develop a system and choose tools purposefully.

#6 Technical Gains | Self-Discipline

Improving self-discipline improves focus. One builds the other. /// Set small healthy self-discipline goals for the long term. /// Are you a competent, disciplined human-in-the-(AI)loop?

#5 Technical Gains | Focus

"Focus is the modern superpower."

#4 Technical Gains | Compounding

"If you do work that compounds, you'll get exponential growth. Most people who do this do it unconsciously, but it's worth stopping to think about. Learning, for example, is an instance of this phenomenon: the more you learn about something, the easier it is to learn more."

#3 Technical Gains

“High Quality Work Produced = Time Spent x Intensity of Focus”

#2 Technical Gains

" Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe" - Abraham Lincoln

#1 Technical Gains

"The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive." Cal Newport - Deep Work