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