Thinking

You act on what you see. But you see through a lens. On choosing better lenses.

Chapters

  1. Check If the Desire Is Yours
  2. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  3. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  4. Why I Hate Hearing “Systems Not Goals”
  5. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  6. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  7. The Advice That Wrecked My Health
  8. The Four Games
  9. Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
  10. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  11. We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
  12. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  13. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  14. Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
  15. I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
  16. Warren Buffett’s Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky?
  17. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  18. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  19. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  20. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  21. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  22. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  23. Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
  24. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  25. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  26. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  27. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  28. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  29. We Are All Investors
  30. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  31. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  32. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  33. The Truth About Running Multiple Businesses at Once
  34. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  35. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  36. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  37. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  38. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  39. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  40. The Pattern Behind Every System Collapse
  41. Why I Said No to Venture Capital for Trends.vc
  42. The 1 Area I Ignored Across 20 Businesses
  43. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  44. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  45. How I Learned Spanish While Running
  46. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  47. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  48. How a Dark Mexico City Room Killed My Output
  49. What Google’s M&M Jars Taught Me About Willpower
  50. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  51. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  52. How to Stay Consistent (By Finding the Minimum Dose)
  53. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  54. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  55. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  56. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  57. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  58. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  59. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  60. What a 20-Mile Night Run Taught Me About Negative Returns
  61. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  62. Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
  63. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  64. The Math of Inevitable Success
  65. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  66. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  67. From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce
  68. Software Engineers Were Modern Scribes
  69. I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI
  70. Is It Necessary?
  71. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  72. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  73. I Thought Bigger Muscle Just Meant More Strength
  74. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  75. How I Stop Procrastinating | The Single Page Method
  76. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  77. Send from Your Name
  78. 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
  79. What a Poker Table Taught Me About Daily Habits
  80. How I Play Aggressive But Safe
  81. The Downward Spiral of Oscar Wilde
  82. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  83. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  84. Force Ranking
  85. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  86. Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
  87. The Estimation Trick I Use to Start Moving
  88. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  89. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  90. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  91. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  92. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  93. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  94. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  95. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  96. I Did It Once, So I Can Do It Again
  97. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  98. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  99. How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
  100. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  101. Ron Hill’s 52-Year Daily Running Streak
  102. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  103. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  104. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  105. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  106. Cold Water Beats a Pep Talk
  107. You’re Not Overthinking. You’re Under-Moving.
  108. Why Polar Bears Pace and Rich Men Dive to the Titanic
  109. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  110. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  111. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  112. Pick Your Pain
  113. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  114. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  115. I Set These 10 Anti-Habits: How I Finish Work by 4pm
  116. The 4 Anti-Habits That Make My Habits Possible
  117. How I Quit My YouTube Addiction
  118. Why I Turn My Phone Screen Red at 9pm
  119. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  120. The 2,000-Day Experiment I Couldn’t Shut Down
  121. What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
  122. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  123. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  124. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  125. From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
  126. Why Smart People Underperform
  127. Habit Banking: How to Keep a Streak Without the Panic
  128. Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
  129. I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
  130. Words Are Software
  131. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  132. I Quit Daily Writing in My 20s and Regretted It for Years
  133. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  134. Somebody Has to Absorb It
  135. Not Useful, Yet
  136. The Middle Is Unknowable
  137. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  138. What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
  139. Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
  140. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
  141. Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
  142. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  143. The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
  144. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  145. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  146. Stop Wasting Your Off Days
  147. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)