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Exploring the bridge, generalizations, and observing the system
Logan
February 20, 2025
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Exploring the bridge, generalizations, and observing the system
Happy Thursday! Thanks for reading Intentional Dollar — where we look at old money ideas through a new perspective.
What’s inside?
One idea to experiment with
Two quotes from others
Three questions to dig deeper
Four lines of poetry for the point
Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. These weekly posts represent my simple thoughts, a few quotes, and some questions — for educational purposes only.
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One idea to experiment with:
The Bridge:
There’s a question I came across recently and it’s been rattling around my mind.
The reason it’s stuck inside my walls is simple as far as I can tell. Maybe wrestling with it some more will show the gaps, but for now, it seems as if this question unlocks the bridge to cross any gap of desire. Gaps that exist between what we have and what we want.
It’s an uncomfortable question. Uncomfortable in the sense that once you sit with it, it stirs up a lot of mental dissonance.
This pot-stirring effect can lead us one of two ways:
You dig a grave in the recesses of your mind and bury the question, not having to deal with the reality it implies. You use it as a sort of guide to help you across the newly erected bridge.
Obviously, we would be wise to take the latter path. But the reason we would choose the first option is because this one question categorically burns all excuses, ceilings, and limiting beliefs upon the initial ask.
This question is about agency. Agency defined here as the capacity to make decisions and take action independently.
So what’s the question?
@nickcammarata shared it on X:
If I had 10x the agency I have, what would I do?
It’s a beautiful question because it allows us to see the latent capabilities we have, if we just exercised a little more agency.
Take a scan of your desires and your possessions. What do you want? Where are you stalled out waiting for someone to come along and show you the way?
There is something we can do right now to advance toward our destination. And that’s why this question haunts me; there are no excuses, no justifications for waiting any longer.
If we just invest a little more time making ourselves resourceful, the world will open up. Agency is the answer.
agency is the bridge between what you have and what you want
Two quotes on generalizations:
We can’t make categorical generalizations simply because we had a particularly bad experience. The sample size is too small. Each of our generalizations builds a brick wall between us and learning.
“Be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of reading.”
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit.”
Three questions on observing the system:
How are all these pieces interacting — what’s really going on here?
Is there a deviation from the theory of how this system should function vs. how it’s actually functioning?
What’s going well in this system?
Which question stuck with you? Questions like these are spotlights for the mind. Reply to this email and let me know which one shined light on a previously dark cave.
Four lines of poetry for the point:
Agency is the magic key
The bridge to cross the uncertain sea
The gap between what you have and want
Brought together by your own wood hunt
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Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. These weekly posts represent my simple thoughts, a few quotes, and some questions — for educational purposes only.
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