Before pivoting to new field, map 5 risks and 3 cheap experiments before full leap.

For every critical role on your team, ask: if its holder vanished tomorrow for a month, who could cover? Map the gaps and build a plan to close them.

Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.

In news writing: most important first, important next, extra last — reader gets it even if stops mid-way.

Before delegating a sensitive task, map who must know and who must agree.

Imagine the project failed entirely a year from now; list 7 plausible reasons before starting.

Map the process as-is (not as-wished): every step, decision, delay.

30 days before audit: self-review controls — find gaps before auditor does.

Before signing: 12 red flags that may cost thousands later.

List "things only X knows" — each is risk if they leave.

Each stakeholder: place in quadrant (high/low power × high/low interest) — each quadrant has strategy.

For every critical process ask: if this person or system vanished tomorrow, what happens?

Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.

Craft three plausible futures (optimistic, base, hard) and test your decisions against each.

Task a separate team with attacking your plan as if they were a smart adversary — before reality discovers it.

15 min before a big decision: imagine it failed a year later, list 5 likely causes with mitigations.

Each activity in your value chain is at a different evolution stage. The map reveals where to invest, where to exit.

Discuss drugs/alcohol/sex via questions, not lectures. Curiosity opens when invited, not imposed.

Delete any app unopened in 30 days — lose apps before they cost you focus.