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nielliesmons | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Sounds like me.
Future oriented, act fast, course correct faster.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Fail fast, fail safe, move on. Resilience and investigative rigor, rather than timidity.

In God I trust, everything else must face periodic review.
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Laeserin | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I've noticed that this drives a lot of people nuts because I'll seem really confident that I've made the right choice about something (like Bitcoin, LOL) and then suddenly waver or sound like a skeptic.

I just have this complex mental flowchart for every decision I make, so if someone points out that I forgot a logic gate or an external input three levels up, I'm immediately like, hold up... let's go back and review this from START, again. 🤔  
The algorithm is dead. Long live the algorithm.
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SOUTHSIDE | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Not believing your own bullshit / checking yourself or the process is the way!
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yeah, Robert Greene's book The 48 Laws of Power has one that goes:

Audacity can always fix the errors caused by audacity.