Flywheels

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

Chapters

  1. Compound Lifts
  2. What Running Does To Your Self-Control
  3. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  4. What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns
  5. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  6. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  7. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  8. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  9. Flywheel Explained: One Action, Many Wins
  10. I’m 15 Years In. These Are the 2 Habits You Need to Go Deeper
  11. Make Two Threats With One Move
  12. 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
  13. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  14. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  15. The Real Reason Your #1 Problem Keeps Waiting
  16. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  17. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  18. The Most Powerful Problem-Solving Model – Inversion
  19. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  20. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  21. Not Useful, Yet
  22. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  23. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  24. The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo
  25. I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying…
  26. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  27. The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah
  28. 1 Writing Tip I Learned from Carnegie, Harari, Seinfeld and More
  29. The Viral Trap: How Social Media Keeps What You Make
  30. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  31. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  32. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  33. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  34. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  35. I Love Biking. So Why Do I Run Instead?
  36. How to Get Startup Ideas: Build the “Dumb” One First
  37. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  38. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  39. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  40. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  41. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  42. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  43. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  44. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  45. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  46. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  47. The Math of Inevitable Success
  48. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  49. Stop Wasting Your Off Days
  50. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  51. How I Quit My YouTube Addiction
  52. Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
  53. Why I Turn My Phone Screen Red at 9pm
  54. Start Laughably Small
  55. I Thought Bigger Muscle Just Meant More Strength
  56. How I Stop Procrastinating | The Single Page Method
  57. Ron Hill’s 52-Year Daily Running Streak
  58. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  59. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  60. The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once
  61. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  62. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  63. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  64. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  65. AI Agents: The Most Valuable Customer You Can Sell To
  66. Atomic Bottlenecks
  67. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  68. Habit Banking: How to Keep a Streak Without the Panic
  69. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  70. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  71. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  72. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  73. I Quit Daily Writing in My 20s and Regretted It for Years
  74. The Compounding Trap: Why Selling a Winner Costs You
  75. Stop Fearing Volatility. Start Hunting It.
  76. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  77. Know When Your Business Is Hurting: The 2 Signals
  78. The 1 Question You Should Ask Each Night
  79. 1 Year of Life Lessons in Just 1 Hour
  80. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  81. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  82. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  83. The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon
  84. I Did It Once, So I Can Do It Again
  85. Remind Yourself Who The F*ck You Are.
  86. The Story in Your Head Is Lying to You
  87. Motivation Wears Off. Here’s What I Do Each Morning.
  88. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  89. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  90. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  91. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  92. The 1 Habit That Changed How I Think
  93. The Thermometer That Changes the Temperature
  94. Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
  95. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse