Conserve your forces and energies by keeping them concentrated at their strongest point. You gain more by finding a rich mine and mining it deeper, than by flitting from one shallow mine to another — intensity defeats extensity every time. When looking for sources of power to elevate you, find the one key patron, the fat cow who will give you milk for a long time.
Direct match with Naval's specific-knowledge and productize-yourself. The "fat cow" framing is crass; the cleaner version is "the relationship you'll be maintaining for years." Operators who fan out across 10 ventures compete in 10 fields; operators who concentrate compete in 1 and compound.
Focus over spread. The Naval specific-knowledge and productize-yourself principles aligned: go deep on one anchor patron/customer rather than spreading thin across many. Machiavelli's war-as-real-art reinforces.
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