Flywheel

Systems that feed themselves. On compound effects, feedback loops, ratchets and momentum.

Chapters

  1. Compound Lifts
  2. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  3. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  4. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  5. Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
  6. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  7. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  8. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  9. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  10. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  11. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  12. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  13. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  14. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  15. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  16. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  17. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  18. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  19. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  20. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  21. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  22. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  23. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  24. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  25. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  26. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  27. Start Laughably Small
  28. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  29. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  30. Atomic Bottlenecks
  31. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  32. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  33. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  34. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  35. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  36. The Thermometer That Changes the Temperature