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. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  4. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  5. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  6. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  7. Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
  8. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  9. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  10. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  11. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  12. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  13. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  14. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  15. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  16. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  17. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  18. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  19. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  20. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  21. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  22. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  23. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  24. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  25. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  26. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  27. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  28. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  29. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  30. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  31. The Math of Inevitable Success
  32. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  33. Stop Wasting Your Off Days
  34. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  35. Start Laughably Small
  36. How I Stop Procrastinating | The Single Page Method
  37. Ron Hill’s 52-Year Daily Running Streak
  38. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  39. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  40. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  41. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  42. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  43. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  44. Atomic Bottlenecks
  45. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  46. Habit Banking: How to Keep a Streak Without the Panic
  47. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  48. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  49. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  50. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  51. I Quit Daily Writing in My 20s and Regretted It for Years
  52. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  53. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  54. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  55. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  56. I Did It Once, So I Can Do It Again
  57. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  58. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  59. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  60. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  61. The Thermometer That Changes the Temperature