definite-optimism SKILL.md skillA
definite-optimism from deciqai/knowledge-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/definite-optimism@git:20261025.cb4e537Pins git:20261025.cb4e537 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- deciqai/knowledge-skills
- Path
definite-optimism/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261025.cb4e537, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 19, 2026
- Size
- 22,040 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Activate when: user says 'definite optimism,' 'Thiel's 2x2,' 'do we have a real plan or just options,' 'we're keeping our options open,' or asks whether a strategy/career/company is a concrete bet on the future or a diversified hedge; a plan consists mainly of process (iterate, A/B test, stay lean, stay flexible) with no falsifiable long-term thesis; someone must choose between committing to one path and preserving optionality. Do NOT activate when: the question is tactical execution inside an…
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What the file says
# Definite Optimism ## Overview In *Zero to One* (2014, ch. 6), Peter Thiel and Blake Masters map attitudes toward the future on a 2×2: is the future **better or worse** than the present (optimist vs pessimist), and is it **knowable and shapeable or a fog** (definite vs indefinite)? Four quadrants follow. **Definite optimism**: the future will be better *and I have a concrete plan to make it so* — the US of the 1950s–60s that scheduled the Apollo program and paved the Interstate system. **Indefinite optimism**: the future will be better but I can't say how, so I accumulate options — modern finance, résumé-polishing generalists, "iteration" with no thesis underneath. **Definite pessimism**: the future is bleak but predictable, so build and stockpile against it. **Indefinite pessimism**: bleak and unknowable — drift and cope. …
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How to install
mdr add deciqai/knowledge-skills/definite-optimism@sha256:13e21f8a6c3c6977The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.cb4e537, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 49 days.
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| git:20261025.cb4e537 latest | 2026-10-25 | cb4e537 | 22,040 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.be84677 | 2026-08-16 | be84677 | 22,040 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.ed3f856 | 2026-07-19 | ed3f856 | 22,040 B | A | view |
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Source
deciqai/knowledge-skills · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jxcszxbbjfegfbfi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=deciqai/knowledge-skills/definite-optimism GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/13e21f8a6c3c697759df7f0f45f90cceeda4f67c1dab522411474fa5ae2fd41f
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