STREET DOGS: How to define your true opportunity
To apply negative knowledge primarily means not to do something
Many people are overwhelmed by the amount of information, opinions, analysis, and news we have available at our fingertips from our pocket supercomputers. Many place the blame on "fake news" or social media outlets when people don’t know who to trust but the real problem isn’t too much information but filter failure. "People don’t know how to limit themselves so they try to drink from the firehose of 24-hour news and Facebook. The liberation of limiting yourself isn’t about a reduction in opportunities; it’s about how you define what your true opportunity set really is so you can avoid wasting your time on things that aren’t important. "This could mean defining: your core competencies, your ‘too hard’ pile, things you won’t invest in, the types of people you won’t work for or with, the types of clients to avoid, books you’ll put down right away and move on from, pundits you won’t pay attention to. "None of these rules have to be unbreakable but we shouldn’t pretend there are no rule...
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