Intelligence optimises for efficiency and order — making destruction and war forms of waste to avoid

Ex-Google Exec (WARNING): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! · Mo Gawdat

Understanding Toyota Production System through the lens of interconnected system properties

The Modern Theory of the Toyota Production System · Phillip Marksberry

Disorder is the default; order requires constant energy investment

Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics · Shane Parrish

Understand why organizations resist change and naturally decay without active effort

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy:The difference and why it matters · Rumelt, Richard

Fill dead time with small structured activities to maintain inner order

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Grow through alternating differentiation and integration

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Master the ultimate test of consciousness: being alone without collapse

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Convert adversity into fuel for greater inner complexity

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Guard your limited attention as the currency of life quality

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A mathematical model for when organizations flip from innovation to politics

Loonshots · Safi Bahcall

Exploit rivals' inability to change; combat your own organizational decay

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt

Energy and entropy

Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions · Shane Parrish

Every desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Eric Jorgenson