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. Why Achieving Goals Doesn’t Make You Happy
  3. To Achieve Your Goals, Aim at Your Habits
  4. Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work
  5. The Advice That Wrecked My Health
  6. The Four Games
  7. Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
  8. We Live in the Wild. Not the Zoo.
  9. Why Comfort Will Ruin Your Life: The Turkey Problem
  10. I Deleted Social Media. Here’s What I Kept.
  11. Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App
  12. I Got Lucky. That’s the Problem.
  13. Warren Buffett’s Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky?
  14. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  15. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  16. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  17. Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
  18. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  19. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  20. We Are All Investors
  21. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  22. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  23. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  24. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  25. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  26. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  27. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  28. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  29. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  30. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  31. Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
  32. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  33. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  34. Is It Necessary?
  35. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  36. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  37. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  38. Send from Your Name
  39. 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
  40. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  41. Force Ranking
  42. Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
  43. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  44. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  45. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  46. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  47. How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
  48. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  49. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  50. Pick Your Pain
  51. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  52. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  53. What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
  54. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  55. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  56. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  57. From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
  58. Why Smart People Underperform
  59. Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
  60. I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
  61. Words Are Software
  62. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  63. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  64. Somebody Has to Absorb It
  65. Not Useful, Yet
  66. The Middle Is Unknowable
  67. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  68. What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
  69. Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
  70. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
  71. Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
  72. The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
  73. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  74. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)