# PlayBook ## PlayBook - [Hello World](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/master.md) - [Understanding Truth](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/foundation/understanding-truth.md): Are you really living "your" life, or merely executing incidentally learned behaviors of the moments past? - [System Values](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/foundation/value-system.md): The principles we strive for. And the principles we look for. - [Limits of Engagement](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/foundation/limits-of-engagement.md): Your employment here is subject to consent to these limits. This are non-negotiable. - [Long-term Players](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/foundation/long-term-games.md): "In a longterm game, it’s positive sum. We’re all baking the pie together. We’re trying to make it as big as possible. And in a short term game, we’re cutting up the pie." - @naval - [Applying](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/applying.md): We see ourselves as a sports team, that is built to win. - [A-Player Attributes](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/a-player.md): Becoming a self-functioning, self-learning, and self-performing unit. - [Compensation Principle](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/compensation-principle.md): Our goal with salary (base pay) is that it checks the box of "enough" for individuals who are excited about working here (because of our mission, people, and work) and then fades into the background. - [Joining](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/joining.md): Welcome aboard - [Short-Term Hires](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/short-term-hires.md): For individuals that are a good fit, but are not here for the long-term game. - [Guest Co-passengers](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/starting/guest-co-passengers.md): When being here doesn't make sense yet, but our vantage is still valuable. - [Realignment Solitude](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/failing/realignment-solitude.md): Long term games with Long term players. - [DKRs and Goal Setting](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/dkrs-and-goal-setting.md): Desires. Not Objectives. - [Feedback Loops](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/feedback-loops.md): DKRs + Accurate Feedback = Self-optimizing loop. - [Monthly Status Check](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/feedback-loops/monthly-status-check.md) - [ETA Culture](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/eta-culture.md): Deadlines easily become an exercise in heroism. We nurture an existence that is rooted in observed reality, not announced bravado. - [Daily Logs](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/daily-logs.md): Learning comes from observing data, not building opinions. Opinions are ego's crutches, not action's ammunition. - [Weekend Syncups](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/weekend-syncup.md) - [6-month Audit](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/succeeding/6-month-audit.md): "We place disproportionate value on individual desire for achievement and for work to be its highest self-expression." - Playbook - [Silent Meetings](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/silent-meetings.md): May the best thought win. Not the one that is presented the loudest. - [Effective Communication](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/effective-communication.md): When you speak, you are demanding someone else’s mind space to be at your volition albeit momentarily; be respectful of that leverage, for else it shall wither away very fast in a team of doers. - [Work Schedule](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/work-schedule.md): Your life is your week. Your week is your day. Your day is this moment. - [Taking Time off](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/taking-time-off.md): You take less time off, there is a risk of burning out. You become lazy, and you can be beaten. - [Getting Paid](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/getting-paid.md) - [Upgrading Playbook](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/operating/upgrading-playbook.md): Playbook is an ever-evolving documentation of our ways of working. This is how that evolution occurs. - [Basics of Ascending](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/evolving/basics-of-ascending.md): Ascend paths are the structured pathways to achieve personal success here. - [Problem See-er Path](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/evolving/problem-see-er-ascend-path.md): The role is of output control. Control comes from influence AND awareness. This path starts at Level 3. - [Organisational Maturity Path](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/evolving/organisational-maturity-path.md): Each process, each team and each business goes through the same levels toward success. - [Team Maturity Path](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/evolving/team-maturity-path.md): This is how you can ascend your team to peak performance. - [Celebrating Goodbyes](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/exiting/celebrating-goodbyes.md): Change is the natural course of the universe. We encourage you to be here only until we are your appropriate spot. - [Empathy in a Team](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/empathy-in-a-team.md) - [Understanding 'Done'](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/understanding-done.md) - [Self-Reponsibility](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/self-reponsibility.md) - [Critical Constraint](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/critical-constraint.md) - [Purpose Driven Action](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/purpose-driven-action.md): Let your activity serve an output. Let that output serve a business purpose. - [Level 2](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2.md) - [Affordance](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2/affordance.md) - [Second Order Thinking](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2/second-order-thinking.md) - [Truth Seeking](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2/truth-seeking.md) - [Systems Thinking](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2/system-thinking.md) - [Compounding](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-2/compounding.md) - [Level 3](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3.md) - [Observe](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3/observe.md) - [Understanding Value](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3/understanding-value.md) - [Output as a Process](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3/output-as-a-process.md) - [Seeing the Real 'Why'](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3/the-real-why.md) - [Leading](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/level-3/leading.md) - [Alpha](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha.md) - [Run-time Outcome != Output](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha/output.md) - [Asking the Right Question](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha/asking-the-right-question.md): to yourself - [Understanding Value](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha/understanding-value.md) - [Influence](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha/influence.md) - [Team as the atomic unit](https://playbook.thevantageproject.com/executing/alpha/team-as-the-atomic-unit.md) --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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