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. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  5. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  6. Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
  7. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  8. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  9. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  10. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  11. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  12. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  13. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  14. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  15. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  16. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  17. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  18. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  19. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  20. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  21. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  22. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  23. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  24. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  25. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  26. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  27. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  28. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  29. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  30. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  31. Start Laughably Small
  32. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  33. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  34. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  35. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  36. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  37. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  38. Atomic Bottlenecks
  39. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  40. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  41. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  42. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  43. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  44. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  45. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  46. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  47. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  48. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  49. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  50. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  51. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  52. The Thermometer That Changes the Temperature