| domain | invertedpassion.com |
| summary | Here’s a summary of the website content, categorized for clarity:
I. Core Mental Models & Thinking Strategies:
* Customer Understanding: Focus on understanding customer needs, not assuming your own. Ask what they *do* want, not what they *will* want. * Disconfirmatory Evidence: Actively seek evidence that challenges your ideas. * Map is Not the Territory: Recognize that models are representations, not reality. * Leadership & Team Dynamics: Effective leaders are hard to find, aim for a cult-like culture by hiring passionate people. Communication clarity is key. * Habit & Behavior: Habits drive behavior, and people leave companies due to bosses, not policies. * Value Creation: Define your market narrowly, prioritize customer-centric value, and don’t be a first mover – be the first to get it right. * Competition: Compete on cost or quality, but don’t try to do both. * Network Effects: Continuously build network effects in your business. * Critical Thinking: Question assumptions, especially intuitive judgments (e.g., Simpson’s paradox).
II. Startup & Business Strategy:
* Fundraising: Demonstrate a clear path to future funding. * Problem Selection: Don’t tackle technically difficult problems. Focus on impactful, personal problems. * Uncertainty & Adaptability: Thrive in the right kind of uncertainty. * Marketing & Communication: Deliver value on what customers care about, avoid being overly sales-oriented, and use a surprising pitch. * Metrics & Measurement: Use leading indicators of profit as your north star metric. * Customer Insights: Study successful customers to guide direction. Pay attention to *behavior*, not just stated desires. * Feedback Loops: Lack of feedback is a startup killer. * Capital Allocation: Business value is determined by future profits. * Moats & Differentiation: Create barriers to competition (e.g., network effects, commoditization). * Ecosystems: Startups belong to ecosystems. * Ideas: Steal successful ideas.
III. Philosophical & Psychological Insights:
* Cognitive Biases: Be aware of biases that influence decision-making (e.g., the endowment effect, confirmation bias). * Human Nature: Assume people are lazy, but market to those who aren’t. Consumers want conformity, companies want differentiation. * Reality & Illusion: Reality is an evolved illusion. * Happiness & Fulfillment: Discover happiness, don’t rigidly plan for it. * The Mind: The mind is “flat” – it doesn’t offer extraordinary insight. * Advice & Wisdom: Be cautious about giving advice. * Ambiguity & Progress: Embrace the ambiguity of progress. * Systems Thinking: Organizations are habit-maximization machines.
IV. Personal Reflections & Learning (2010s-2018):
* Personal Growth: Reflection on experiences, habits, and intellectual development. * Book Summaries & Reviews: Summaries of key books (e.g., *The Shallows*, *Nonzero*, *Founders*, *Inverted Passion*). * Experiments & Observations: Observations and reflections on various aspects of life and business.
V. Specific Topics & Ideas (Emerging Themes):
* Artificial Intelligence (AI): Caution around AGI. * Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: The fundamental principles of Bitcoin and Ethereum. * Economics & Finance: Money, entropy, and climate change; revenue vs. profit. * Social Issues: Consumer behavior, social conformity, wealth distribution.
This summary captures the breadth and depth of the website’s content, highlighting recurring themes and providing a general overview of its ideas. |
| title | Welcome, friend - Inverted Passion |
| description | Welcome, friend - Inverted Passion |
| keywords | models, personal, notes, psychology, philosophy, systems, business, summaries, book, economics, march, january, july, summary, december, august, june |
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| created | 2025-11-09 |
| updated | 2026-01-26 |
| summarized | 2026-01-30 |
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