You act on what you see. But you see through a lens. On choosing better lenses.
Chapters
- Check If the Desire Is Yours
- You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
- Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
- To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
- Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
- The Advice That Wrecked My Health
- The Four Games
- Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
- We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
- Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
- I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
- Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
- I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
- Warren Buffett’s Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky?
- The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
- From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
- Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
- Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
- Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
- The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
- The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
- My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
- We Are All Investors
- Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
- Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
- Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
- How to Focus on One Thing All Day
- The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
- The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
- Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
- Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
- Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
- Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
- Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
- I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
- The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
- Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
- How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
- Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
- Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
- Why Smart People Stay Broke
- Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
- Is It Necessary?
- The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
- Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
- You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
- The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
- Send from Your Name
- 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
- The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
- The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
- Force Ranking
- Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
- How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
- One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
- Chase Risk Before It Chases You
- 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
- Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
- Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
- How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
- I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
- The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
- Pick Your Pain
- Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
- When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
- What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
- Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
- Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
- Easy Choices, Hard Life
- From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
- Why Smart People Underperform
- Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
- I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
- Words Are Software
- Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
- Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
- Somebody Has to Absorb It
- Not Useful, Yet
- The Middle Is Unknowable
- An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
- What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
- Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
- Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
- Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
- The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
- I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
- Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)