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21 frameworks
The Three Forms of Leverage
Trade labour and capital leverage for code and media, the kinds nobody has to grant you.
The Business Model Leverage Screen
Pick businesses with scale economies, zero marginal cost and network effects.
Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Keep redefining what you do until being the best in the world at it is true.
Network-First Deal Sourcing
Invest inside your trusted network first and branch out only once it is exhausted
Apples-to-Apples Chain Benchmark
Measure every chain on one real transaction type under production conditions.
The Data-and-Verification Test
Score any domain on data volume and verification speed to predict where AI wins.
Knowledge Turns Matter Into Resources
Test any scarcity claim by asking what new knowledge would dissolve it.
Source-First Technical Judgment
Learn a field from its primary sources and back its scientists to validate deals.
Decentralization-to-Value Matching
Choose your chain by what is at stake, not by the throughput headline.
The Tech Hub Tier Test
Decide where to angel invest by tiering your city and pricing your access honestly
The Explanation Test
Judge a theory by what it explains, never by what it can predict
The Feedback Source Test
Trust the judgement of people paid by reality, discount the people graded by their peers.
The Prerequisite Stack Test
Check whether a failed idea was actually wrong or simply arrived before its stack existed.
The Walk-Away Test
Judge a deal by how hard it is to escape, then refuse to be trapped.
Live in the Future, Then Work Backwards
Buy tomorrow's cost curve today, watch what becomes possible, then build backwards.
Knowledge Creates Resources
Treat scarcity as a knowledge problem, not a fixed physical limit.
Layered Error Correction
Judge a system by how many independent ways it can catch its own mistakes
The Collective Brain Test
Before trusting a top-down plan, ask whether one mind could hold the system
The Attacker-Defender Asymmetry Test
Score a technology by which side it favours, then read off where power goes
The Logic of Violence
Read the dominant weapon technology to predict how power and states will reorganize
Commoditize Your Complement
Give away the layer next to yours so demand floods into the layer you actually own