All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

TL;DR

You win mostly by avoiding the predictable stupid mistakes, not by being brilliant: figure out where failure lives and never go there.

What stuck with me

• Invert. Ask what would guarantee failure, then remove those things.
• Prevention is cheaper than cure. Build reserves and independence early, so you’re never forced into bad decisions.
• Learn from other people’s failures. Pick up the big mistakes secondhand instead of making them yourself, and once something works, keep doing it.
• Keep it simple. Pick easy problems over hard ones, stay inside your circle of competence, protect time to think, and say no to almost everything.
• Avoid the recipe for misery. Envy, self-pity, unreliability, and working with people you don’t admire.
• Watch incentives, including your own. And don’t hold an opinion until you can argue the other side better than they can.