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