Investing

Price is your due diligence. On margins of safety, loss aversion, hurdle rates and compounding.

Chapters

  1. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  2. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  3. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  4. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  5. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  6. We Are All Investors
  7. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  8. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  9. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  10. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  11. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  12. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  13. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  14. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  15. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  16. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  17. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  18. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  19. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  20. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  21. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  22. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  23. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  24. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  25. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  26. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  27. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  28. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  29. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  30. Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
  31. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  32. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  33. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  34. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  35. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  36. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  37. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  38. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  39. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  40. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  41. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  42. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  43. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  44. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  45. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  46. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)
  47. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  48. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  49. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  50. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  51. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  52. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  53. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  54. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  55. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  56. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  57. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  58. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  59. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  60. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  61. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  62. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  63. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  64. Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
  65. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  66. Micro-Failure vs. Macro-Failure
  67. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  68. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  69. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  70. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  71. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  72. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.