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. We Are All Investors
  8. From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce
  9. Software Engineers Were Modern Scribes
  10. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  11. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  12. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  13. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  14. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  15. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  16. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  17. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  18. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  19. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  20. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  21. How to Stay Consistent (By Finding the Minimum Dose)
  22. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  23. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  24. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  25. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  26. Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day
  27. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  28. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  29. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  30. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  31. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  32. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  33. How to Adapt to Change Fast Enough
  34. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  35. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  36. Fail Fast, Fail Often: My 1-in-20 Hit Rate
  37. The Math of Inevitable Success
  38. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  39. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  40. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  41. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  42. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  43. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  44. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  45. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  46. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  47. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  48. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  49. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  50. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  51. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  52. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  53. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  54. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  55. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  56. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)
  57. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  58. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  59. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  60. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  61. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  62. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  63. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  64. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  65. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  66. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  67. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  68. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  69. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  70. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  71. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  72. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  73. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  74. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  75. Why 1% Better Isn’t Enough
  76. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  77. Micro-Failure vs. Macro-Failure
  78. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  79. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  80. The Pattern Behind Every System Collapse
  81. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  82. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  83. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  84. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  85. Stop Wasting Your Off Days