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Twice Is Enough
Tarun's personal rule for risk and mistakes.
How it works
- 1Every day is a new day, and yesterday is unreachable, so don't spend today on it.
- 2Making the same mistake twice is acceptable. A third time is not.
- 3Roughly half of what you decide to do will fail. That's the correct rate.
- 4Too few failures means too little risk.
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