Investing

Price is your due diligence. On margins of safety, loss aversion, hurdle rates and compounding.

Chapters

  1. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  2. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  3. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  4. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  5. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  6. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  7. A Day on the Moon. A Decade of Depression.
  8. We Are All Investors
  9. From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce
  10. Software Engineers Were Modern Scribes
  11. I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI
  12. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  13. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  14. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  15. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  16. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  17. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  18. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  19. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  20. The 2,000-Day Experiment I Couldn’t Shut Down
  21. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  22. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  23. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  24. The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once
  25. How to Stay Consistent (By Finding the Minimum Dose)
  26. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  27. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  28. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  29. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  30. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  31. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  32. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  33. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  34. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  35. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  36. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  37. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  38. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  39. What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns
  40. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  41. Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
  42. The Math of Inevitable Success
  43. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  44. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  45. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  46. How I Play Aggressive But Safe
  47. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  48. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  49. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  50. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  51. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  52. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  53. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  54. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  55. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  56. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  57. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  58. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  59. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  60. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  61. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  62. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)
  63. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  64. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  65. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  66. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  67. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  68. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  69. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  70. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  71. How I Quit My YouTube Addiction
  72. Why I Turn My Phone Screen Red at 9pm
  73. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  74. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  75. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  76. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  77. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  78. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  79. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  80. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  81. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  82. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  83. Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
  84. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  85. Micro-Failure vs. Macro-Failure
  86. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  87. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  88. The Pattern Behind Every System Collapse
  89. Why I Said No to Venture Capital for Trends.vc
  90. The 1 Area I Ignored Across 20 Businesses
  91. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  92. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  93. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  94. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  95. Stop Wasting Your Off Days