August 11th

Waste not, want not! What does that mean to the true warrior?

Does it mean that, if we stop wasting (time, energy, resources, tools, money, etc.), we will not be left wanting? It means that you should be ruthless with your analysis of waste. Those things that do not produce economic improvements are waste. Streamline everything into the fastest feedback loop for validated learning, so that the true warrior can get to the go, or no go position as soon as possible. Go or no go. Surely you have that point clearly established don’t you?

The true warrior sets up the parameters or conditions that must be met before going ahead, for if they are not met, the true warrior does not proceed. It is as simple as that, because the true warrior knows that it is okay to get to the no go answer, as that is simply having learned what doesn’t work. Learning that lesson is inordinately valuable to the true warrior. The true warrior wants to churn through these learning cycles as fast as possible. The true warrior knows that you can expect to learn what doesn’t work far more frequently than learning what does.

The true warrior embraces failure, as it is only by failing that we can break through to the successes!

You are warriors and you will win if you will only agree to fail and fail rapidly. So it has been written.