If you want to make a bigger impact on the face of the world having a more principled way of thinking about it will help.

At the end of the day theres two things which matter, how much value your action provides and how many times you can perform this action, the leverage.

My impression is that in many domains most people are positive value and will produce value, often in many domains just introducing change will result in a positive outcome half of the time.

And so the far less under-appreciated component is the leverage side.

Currently I think theres four main ways people gain leverage:

• Capital: you borrow money to increase the size of your bet
• Human: you use other people to increase the size of your bet
• Software: you use computers to run your value producing software multiple times
• Media: you duplicate your value producing media multiple times