#14 Technical Gains | Better Reading

Be an active reader. /// Choose your information diet, then focus on reading. /// Use GenAI to support understanding and competence build.

#9 Technical Gains | Cognitive Energy

Build awareness of your cognitive energy levels. /// Avoid stupidity - choose the right time to make difficult decisions. /// Design and use your systems to save energy.

#13 Technical Gains | Learning to learn

Mastery requires continual evolution of the learning process. /// Take your learning practice seriously. /// Select digital tools designed to enable learning.

#12 Technical Gains | Purpose

Purpose = clarity /// Purpose provides goals and direction - set your own. /// Work from purpose to design your operating system.

#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."