Independent Thinking
I don't adopt ideas because they're popular. I adopt them because I've
tested them against my own reasoning.
Self-Awareness
You cannot improve a system you don't understand — and that includes
yourself. Without it, ten years of experience is one year repeated ten
times.
Open Mind
I hold my opinions strongly, but loosely. Every failure, every piece of
feedback is a potential upgrade to my mental model.
Intuition
Not everything worth knowing fits in a spreadsheet. Intuition is
compressed experience — pattern recognition trained by years of building
and breaking things.