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. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  3. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  4. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  5. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  6. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  7. A Day on the Moon. A Decade of Depression.
  8. We Are All Investors
  9. From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce
  10. Software Engineers Were Modern Scribes
  11. I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI
  12. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  13. I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying…
  14. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  15. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  16. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  17. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  18. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  19. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  20. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  21. The 2,000-Day Experiment I Couldn’t Shut Down
  22. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  23. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  24. When You’re Winning… And Lose Everything
  25. The Compounding Trap: Why Selling a Winner Costs You
  26. The Viral Trap: How Social Media Keeps What You Make
  27. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  28. The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once
  29. How to Stay Consistent (By Finding the Minimum Dose)
  30. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  31. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  32. The 1 Rule That Stops Me Raising My Goals Too Soon
  33. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  34. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  35. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  36. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  37. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  38. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  39. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  40. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  41. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  42. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  43. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  44. The 4 Habit Levels Where Results Get Insane
  45. What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns
  46. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  47. Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
  48. The Math of Inevitable Success
  49. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  50. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  51. The Chinese Mastermind Group Behind Volvo
  52. Every Type of Courage Explained | Which One Do You Have?
  53. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  54. How I Play Aggressive But Safe
  55. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  56. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  57. Same Habits, Different Days: My Daily Experiments
  58. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  59. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  60. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  61. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  62. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  63. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  64. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  65. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  66. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  67. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  68. The Psychology of Getting Comedy From Failure | Trevor Noah
  69. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  70. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  71. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  72. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)
  73. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  74. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  75. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  76. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  77. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  78. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  79. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  80. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  81. How I Quit My YouTube Addiction
  82. Why I Turn My Phone Screen Red at 9pm
  83. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  84. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  85. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  86. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  87. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  88. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  89. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  90. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  91. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  92. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  93. Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
  94. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  95. Micro-Failure vs. Macro-Failure
  96. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  97. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  98. The Pattern Behind Every System Collapse
  99. Why I Said No to Venture Capital for Trends.vc
  100. Which Business Model Suits Your Personality?
  101. The 1 Area I Ignored Across 20 Businesses
  102. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  103. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  104. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  105. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  106. Stop Wasting Your Off Days