Thinking

You act on what you see. But you see through a lens. on choosing better lenses.

Chapters

  1. Check If the Desire Is Yours
  2. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  3. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  4. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  5. The Advice That Wrecked My Health
  6. The Four Games
  7. Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
  8. We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
  9. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  10. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  11. Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
  12. I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
  13. Warren Buffett’s Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky?
  14. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  15. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  16. Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
  17. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  18. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  19. We Are All Investors
  20. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  21. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  22. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  23. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  24. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  25. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  26. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  27. Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
  28. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  29. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  30. Is It Necessary?
  31. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  32. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  33. Send from Your Name
  34. 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
  35. Force Ranking
  36. Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
  37. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  38. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  39. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  40. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  41. How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
  42. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  43. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  44. Pick Your Pain
  45. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  46. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  47. What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
  48. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  49. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  50. From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
  51. Why Smart People Underperform
  52. Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
  53. I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
  54. Words Are Software
  55. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  56. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  57. Somebody Has to Absorb It
  58. Not Useful, Yet
  59. The Middle Is Unknowable
  60. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  61. What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
  62. Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
  63. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
  64. Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
  65. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  66. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)