January 6th, 2023
- reading
- about explode mode as distinct from explore & exploit
- > fundamentally, during explosions you’re either caring about something or abandoning it. The litmus test is this: is acting on a front draining energy/momentum or building it up via positive feedback? Things that drain energy lower explosive power. Things that build it add to the explosive power. If you systematically abandon the former and decide to care about the latter, your life turns into an explosion, with exponential positive-loop dynamics. You give up steering authority for acceleration and momentum.
- this makes me think of exaptation & fuel the upward spiral
- the giving up steering authority bit is kind of like surrendering to the larger whole