Systems that feed themselves. On compound effects, feedback loops, ratchets and momentum.
Chapters
- Compound Lifts
- Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
- What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns
- Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
- From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
- You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
- Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
- Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
- 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
- When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
- Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
- Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
- The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
- Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
- The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
- Not Useful, Yet
- The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
- Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
- The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo
- I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying…
- The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
- The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah
- The Viral Trap: How Social Media Keeps What You Make
- You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
- Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
- One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
- 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
- How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
- I Love Biking. So Why Do I Run Instead?
- How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
- To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
- Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
- The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
- 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
- Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
- Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
- The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
- Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
- I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
- Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
- The Math of Inevitable Success
- Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
- Stop Wasting Your Off Days
- The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
- How I Quit My YouTube Addiction
- Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
- Why I Turn My Phone Screen Red at 9pm
- Start Laughably Small
- I Thought Bigger Muscle Just Meant More Strength
- How I Stop Procrastinating | The Single Page Method
- Ron Hill’s 52-Year Daily Running Streak
- How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
- The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
- The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once
- His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
- Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
- The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
- AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
- Atomic Bottlenecks
- Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
- Habit Banking: How to Keep a Streak Without the Panic
- The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
- Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
- Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
- You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
- I Quit Daily Writing in My 20s and Regretted It for Years
- The Compounding Trap: Why Selling a Winner Costs You
- 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
- Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
- You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
- Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
- The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon
- I Did It Once, So I Can Do It Again
- Remind Yourself Who The F*ck You Are.
- Motivation Wears Off. Here’s What I Do Each Morning.
- Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
- How to Focus on One Thing All Day
- Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
- I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
- The Thermometer That Changes the Temperature
- Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
- Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse