Build resilience

• Create failsafes to isolate and limit damage
• Develop the ability to self heal or repair quickly
• Build the ability to use diverse inputs and resources
• Establish access to uncorrelated inputs and resources
• Reduce or eliminate dependencies
• Practice operating in a reduced state
• Periodically expose yourself to challenges and stress
• Think in terms of more and less
• Plan on your plan not going to plan
• Accept that randomness and volatility are unavoidable
• Be quicker to change strategies, structures, and actions
• Be slower to change values and purposes
• Increase optionality and adaptability
• Use situation assessment to identify negative trends or changes

Build optionality

• Constrain wants and needs, keep core functions small and agile
• Build and maintain flexible/multipurpose buffers such as health, wealth, skills, and relationships
• Broaden the range of things that can happen and still provide benefits (or be survivable)
• Rather than establishing binary goals, pursue activities where a range of potential outcomes are acceptable
• Pursue diverse and broadly useful experiences
• Choose activities and goals with non-linear upside and limited downside
• Avoid activities with a fixed upside and unlimited downside
• Focus on generating better options rather than making perfect decisions