Be Impatient

While I think Ben Kuhn could’ve come up with a better title, I agree with the contents of his post: Be Impatient.

Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable about getting your small handful of priorities accomplished quickly. I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful.

Other posts by Ben have an opposite effect on me - I like the succinct and clear titles he comes up with. They’re too good in some sense, since they convey the full force of his (good) argument, making the post itself parenthetical: “No one can teach you to have conviction”, “You don’t need to work on hard problems”, “To listen well, get curious”, “Staring into the abyss as a core life skill”.

Back to the impatience - the advice here is to have a bias towards action.

You have to be decisive. … Work on things that seem small but move really quickly.

The way this mechanism works is not by doing “more”, but by processing information more quickly. The decisive and relentlessly fast executors just get more, and more accurate, shots at the goal.

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