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This chapter delves into the idea of thinking in primitives as fundamental components for innovation and progress, focusing on necessary infrastructures like energy systems and technology. It illustrates how organizing tools, networks, and skills can facilitate personal growth and decision-making, drawing on examples from the digital age and insights from Jeff Bezos's mental models.

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The tools of thinking that fueled the Growth Mindset and fast decisions behind the success of Jeff Bezos.

Bezos frames business as a series of silent promises: to customers, to colleagues, to the future. Each promise is a primitive—simple, sturdy, waiting to be linked. When those links form, independence evolves into interdependence, and a whisper becomes a flywheel.

In this conversation, we explore how “Day One” thinking keeps the path clear, how a “regret-minimization lens” invites bold choices, and why “single-threaded leadership” protects the soul of a project.