#15: Life-Changing Decision

to the worse or the better... a mystery

Decision Tree

I have been quite curious about decisions lately

trying to improve my decisions by keeping a journal

(and sharing with you some I made along the way)

on average, a human makes 35,000 decisions a day

our life is a series of decisions

many of those decisions are not that consequential

eating eggs or oatmeal in the morning for instance

not that big of a deal

deciding to marry that girl

that's a big deal

this reminds me with a small illustration I made in a challenge

(one of the only ones I ever completed)

to make some thing creative for 50 days

this was the entry from day 31

if the spectrum of possibility is between

\(\text{who da f is this} (ft) \quad \longleftarrow\text{you now}\longrightarrow \quad \text{who you could be} (cb)\)

who you could be represents your full potential in the truest form

as good decisions (gd) goes to infinity

and on the other side of the number line,

as one spirals in negative and bad decisions

as (bd) goes to infinity

you can end up in the worst potentially possible position

these are hypotheticals, we are somewhere in the middle

but if you somehow reprogram yourself to

to optimize for who you could be (cb)

stacking good decisions

one after the other

you’d be unstoppable

and it won’t just be impactful to you

but to those around you

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Butterfly Effect

startups are made of thousands of decisions too

the better startups are making better decisions…

a couple of weeks ago I told you that I made a decision

and I didn't know whether it was right or wrong

I told you I told both the two cofounders I had

that we shouldn’t work with each other anymore

for two different reasons, but the outcome was the same

I introduced them to each other

and one of them was a friend for years

but guess what?

they teamed up against me

they had access to our Figma and took my designs

dirty move…

felt disappointed at this low blow ngl

but I understand where it’s coming from

I discovered it by chance,

and removed both of them from the figma

(took me long, I didn’t see it coming)

now, this was a consequence of a series of decisions I made (summarized):

1. reaching out to friend Y

2. convincing him to join the team

3. discussing ideas with him, made me remember person A

4. he was working on something similar, so I got him involved

5. applied to YC

6. working together and applying made me feel we aren’t a good fit

7. realizing one of them wasn’t a good fit and dropping him

8. realizing the second wasn’t also a good fit and dropping him

I might have made a series of bad decisions…

or mediocre ones…

or perhaps great ones?

but regardless

each one of them carries a propagation value

like karmic values, following the action

some sort of a butterfly effect

the end result of which

led those two to team up against Tribbel

and led me to lose a friend

(I know they won’t win… and I’m willing to fight till the last breath)

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Updates

We are weeks away from our release of Tribbel

and it is looking better than it has ever looked

some hiccups here and there,

(including an engineer deleting our users database x2)

but we are finally making some real progress

excited to share with you more soon

P.S: a new video will be out this week, continuing the series where we left off