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Exploring the observational post, decision protocols, and the good thing test
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February 27, 2025
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Exploring the observational post, decision protocols, and the good thing test
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 Observational Post:
Yogi Berra said, “You can see a lot just by observing.”
Sitting, watching, listening—taking it all in. That’s how we learn.
Observing is like the margin of our life. These observational posts are where we can make instrumental progress. Exactly like having a margin of safety with your money. When the right opportunity comes, you have the ability to pounce.
And more, you have conviction. The clarity you gain from seeing each piece of the system flow and interact, connect and emerge, bolsters your future decisions by providing better, complete information.
Too often we are stuck in the busy details, heads down, grinding, unaware of the system moving around us. This approach creates suboptimal decisions made deep within clunky systems.
When we can step back and take it all in, we can get the whole picture. It’s like zooming out. We pull ourselves out of the matrix and watch the pieces move.
So this week, step back and observe.
What is your money system? Are you too in the details to see how everything flows, to see the feedback loops, to see the casual loops of your decisions?
Experiment, iterate, or keep the same program. But audit it. Understand it. Test it. Observe it. Make sure it’s the best for you.
sit back and see the system
Two quotes on decision protocols:
Not every action requires great deliberation. But some do. The way we think about the important actions, and their cascading reach, can help us increase the odds of making precise decisions.
“Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.”
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”
Three questions on the good thing test:
What’s the good thing about this problem?
How would an optimist look at these problems, issues, or challenges?
Why can’t I also assume that role and wear those glasses?
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:
Sit, wait, watch, observe
You’ll see more than a linear piece of the exponential curve
We learn a lot when we patiently watch
Decisions get better by more than a notch
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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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