Experiments

Success is a function of attempts.

Chapters

  1. The One-Morning Rule for Impossible Goals
  2. If You Can’t Lose, You Aren’t Playing
  3. How to Get Lucky in Life
  4. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  5. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  6. The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo
  7. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  8. How to Get Good Ideas
  9. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  10. I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying…
  11. The Point Is to Try
  12. You’ve Read Enough. It’s Time to Start Using It.
  13. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  14. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  15. Micro-Failure vs Macro-Failure
  16. I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
  17. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  18. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  19. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  20. Start With One Experiment
  21. How a Notion Doc Became a SaaS
  22. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  23. The Power of Focus: What Early AI Models Taught Me
  24. Skateboard to Space Station
  25. The Middle Is Unknowable
  26. I Thought Bigger Muscle Just Meant More Strength
  27. Change One Thing at a Time
  28. The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
  29. I Quit The ONE Thing Three Times Before I Got It Right
  30. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  31. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  32. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  33. How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, Faster
  34. Every Type of Courage Explained | Which One Do You Have?
  35. I Got Everything I Wanted at 23 and Stopped Growing
  36. Build Systems So Your Work Runs on Easy Mode
  37. Why Polar Bears Pace and Rich Men Dive to the Titanic
  38. Composable Experiments
  39. Experiment Chains
  40. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  41. Same Habits, Different Days: My Daily Experiments
  42. The 2,000-Day Experiment I Couldn’t Shut Down
  43. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  44. New Habits Feel Worse Before They Feel Better And Here Is Why
  45. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  46. How to Prioritize When You Have Too Many Ideas
  47. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  48. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  49. Fuck Around to Find Out
  50. Confidence Is a Side Effect
  51. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  52. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  53. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  54. Get More Done by Counting What You Finish
  55. I Launched a Product a Day for 17 Days (Then Burned Out)
  56. Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
  57. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  58. The Math of Inevitable Success
  59. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  60. I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI
  61. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  62. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  63. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  64. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  65. Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
  66. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  67. My Launch Got One Like
  68. Stop Playing Chess. Start Playing Poker.
  69. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  70. How a Failed Pre-Sell Built My Business
  71. Turning Failure Into Success: 7,000 Subs, Zero Sales
  72. The 1 Area I Ignored Across 20 Businesses
  73. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  74. Don’t Waste Pain
  75. The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah
  76. I Learned This the Hard Way: Write Down Your Rules
  77. Motivation Wears Off. Here’s What I Do Each Morning.
  78. Use Your Rejections
  79. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
  80. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  81. What a Depression Drug Taught Me About Rich People’s Habits
  82. The Experiment That Changed My Mornings
  83. What Google’s M&M Jars Taught Me About Willpower
  84. Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
  85. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  86. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  87. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  88. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  89. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  90. The 4 Habit Levels Where Results Get Insane
  91. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  92. The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon
  93. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  94. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  95. How to Stay Consistent (By Finding the Minimum Dose)
  96. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  97. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  98. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  99. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  100. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  101. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  102. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  103. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  104. Why I Love When Things Break
  105. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  106. No One Owes You Sh*t