Maps & Diagrams Series | Dragos Roua
Goals & Discipline

The Productivity Map

Productivity mapped systematically visually. Navigation through tasks requires overview—seeing landscape enables strategic movement. Two axes—goals and discipline—create four quadrants revealing where you stand in your productive life.

Key insight: "High goals with low discipline create frustration; low goals with high discipline create stability without fulfillment"
Knowledge & Ignorance

The Stupidity Map

Everyone has domains where they're brilliant and zones where they're foolish. Mapping your stupidity zones is more valuable than celebrating your genius. Four levels: what you know, what you think you know, what you don't know, and what you don't know that you don't know.

Key insight: "The most dangerous zone is what you don't know that you don't know—ignorance disguised as confidence"
Time Horizons

Short Game versus Long Game

Short game optimizes immediate wins. Long game sacrifices today for compound tomorrow. Most people play short because long requires patience they lack. Living well exists at the intersection of both games—instant survival balanced with long-term empire building.

Key insight: "Short game is about trying to win the lottery; long game is about compounding small bits into empires"
Financial Health

The Money Diagram

Income, expenses, savings—three circles that determine financial life. Where they overlap or separate reveals everything about money health. The diagram maps wealth and character, showing that niceness and net worth occupy independent axes.

Key insight: "Money amplifies who you already are—it doesn't change character, it reveals it"