Specific knowledge is something you learn and knowledge you cannot be trained for. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Become the best in the world at what you do (your specific knowledge) and keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Exploring what is mine, and hopefully it makes you think what is yours.

Compounding is a very powerful concept, easier to understand with a money example. $1 on day 1st of July, doubling it every day of the month vs $100 million - if given an option, one should chose the former. That $1 a day doubling for just one month is $1billion+.

This is easy to understand, but I find compounding has an incredibly profound impact on two other aspects of your life.

For purpose of this writing success is narrowly defined as the pursuit of wealth and influence over capital, labour, technology or ideology - the drivers of modern day capitalism.

In this narrow scope of success, I have found few fundamentals to hold true and few things which enable the pursuit of aforementioned success.

Those two words sum up a lot about human nature and opportunities. We are either fighting for survival or defending it, or we are reaching a little higher to rise up in whatever endeavor one might be perusing. We seldom can do both simultaneously.

When you are rock climbing, you clip the quickdraws to bolt before going any higher. You ensure survival and then you go higher.

Decision Making is like sex, everybody engages in it but most people don’t take the time to read about it or learn it methodically. This results in sloppy decision making.

We make decisions everyday, but every-time we have a critical decision - a job prospect, a life partner prospect, a decision to move countries or cities - we start from the ground up, we think about what we truly want, make pros and cons and discuss with our trusted and loved ones. This is an extremely sub-optimal way of decision making

We all have to make this choice. We have to make it few times in our life. This is my attempt to synthesis broad frameworks I have learnt from Andy Rachleff (Benchmark, Wealthfront) and Eric Schmidt (Google). This has helped me, and I hope the same for you.