Fuck trends, long live decisions

His list of decisions is too vague! They need concrete instantiations, things he can actually do, or they're going to be just nice-sounding generalities to ponder. (I've been burned by this personally.)

I'll give an example. Suppose a college student decides "I will take charge of my education and be motivated to learn." This is a nice idea, but it's easy to lose sight of such high ideals when your daily routine is so immediate and distracting. Something more concrete might be, "I will read at least one interesting journal article each day for the next month, marking each day on the calendar." With this sort of decision, you will know if you are doing it or not, and it can become a routine.

Don't decide to get better at writing; decide what you're going to write, then write it while deliberately trying to write well. Don't decide to "become relevant or GTFO"; come up with some plausible ways to become relevant, try some non-null subset of them, and see how it goes.

Making decisions is active.

Spotting trends is passive.

They complement each other, like a feedback loop.

This guy doesn't know the difference between tracking trends and "predictions". Trends are based on decisions already made.