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On Planning and Entrepreneurship.

The very most important planning you can do is find the most critical people you will be working with (customers, platforms, partners, etc) and figure out whether your incentives are and can be and will remain aligned. 

Predicting future actions and conditions is nearly impossible, but if your incentives are aligned with the people who matter most, you’ll always figure things out together.

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Good point. The reason I like using the word “incentive” is that it is a motive force. (Values can be easily “state”, incentives move to “revealed”)

I think the people who are actually *moved* by their values are quite rare. Vitalik is one. (You are one, sir!) For them, principle is a very real incentive. As powerful as money or whatever. 

For many others, the incentives are easier to lump. Seven deadly sins type stuff. 

(I don’t mean this as a statement on anyone’s final potential, but just how I observe people acting)

Discovering people’s incentives is a really important art to practice.

Predicting is easy (thank you bracky) being correct is hard. 😜

My pet peeves aside🤦, yes agree. might boil this down & say ‘values alignment’ is most important. 

MVV should start with Values not Mission or Vision imo. It’s the thing that never changes.

Exactly, that’s why i believe it’s important to understand the community and the people you’re dealing with. You always need to know a bit of sociology and you can read people. Having skills in your profession is not enough most of the time IMO, you also need to be good at communicating!