Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.