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. The Nobel Prize Got Loss Aversion Wrong
  17. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  18. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  19. Do Less, Get More: The F1 Math
  20. Don’t Hard-Code Trauma: How to Let Go of the Past
  21. Time Is Not Your Most Valuable Asset
  22. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  23. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  24. The Trade You Make 100 Times a Day
  25. The 3% Mortgage Debate Is Really About Sleep
  26. My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn’t.
  27. We Are All Investors
  28. Work-Life Balance Is a Myth. Choose Your Table.
  29. Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio
  30. Habit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can’t
  31. How to Focus on One Thing All Day
  32. The 3am Binge Isn’t a Willpower Failure
  33. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  34. Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks
  35. Your Habit List Is a Single Point of Failure
  36. Optimizing Your Life Is Killing Your Progress
  37. Not All Trade-Offs Are Real
  38. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  39. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  40. Patagonia’s 5-Word Policy for Getting Work Done
  41. Your Habits Have a Hurdle Rate
  42. I Pay 34 Minutes a Day for My Business to Grow
  43. The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing
  44. AI’s 7-Month Doubling Rule
  45. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  46. Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong
  47. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  48. Consistency Over Intensity: What Pushing Harder Costs
  49. Long-Haul Luxuries: Why I Only Buy Things Built To Last
  50. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  51. Why Smart People Stay Broke
  52. Will AI Take Your Job? The Rebuttal Is Incomplete
  53. Is It Necessary?
  54. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  55. Analysis Paralysis Is a Bundling Problem
  56. You’re Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep.
  57. The Con I Run on Myself to Start Working
  58. Send from Your Name
  59. 5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life
  60. The Map Is Not the Territory (And Why That’s Fine)
  61. The Tater Tots Trick for Repurposing Content
  62. Force Ranking
  63. Everything Feels Important? It’s a Ranking Problem
  64. Simulation Thinking: How to Make Hard Decisions
  65. How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know
  66. How I Got My First Customer With 8 Notion Docs
  67. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  68. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  69. 4 Things I’d Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything.
  70. Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator
  71. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  72. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  73. How I Beat Perfectionism With a 3-Minute Clock
  74. I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke
  75. The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It.
  76. You Stopped Feeling It. It Didn’t Stop Working.
  77. 1 Metric for Life Progress: The Daily Tempo Score
  78. Your Cold Shower Is an Exposure Therapy Rep
  79. The 200-Million-Year Test for Any Habit
  80. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  81. Pick Your Pain
  82. Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No
  83. When to Give Up on a Business: Force or Flow?
  84. What an AI Playing Breakout Taught Me About Reality
  85. Fifteen Years on One Wall. One Day Off the Business Week.
  86. Why I Can’t Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax)
  87. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  88. From Self Taught Programmer to Senior in Under 2 Years
  89. Why Smart People Underperform
  90. Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
  91. I Left My Job in 2017. Here’s What 10 Years Proved.
  92. Words Are Software
  93. Think on Paper to Keep Your Principles Sharp
  94. Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100
  95. Somebody Has to Absorb It
  96. Not Useful, Yet
  97. The Middle Is Unknowable
  98. An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success
  99. What Soros Knew About Prediction Markets
  100. Prediction Markets Are Accurate (That’s the Problem)
  101. Manifesting Is Learned Helplessness in Reverse
  102. Don’t Believe Everything You Think. Test It.
  103. Neil Gaiman’s Two-Draft Rule
  104. The 10pm Rule I Failed for Two Years
  105. I Stopped Taking Rest Days. The Binges Started.
  106. Revenge Bedtime Procrastination Isn’t About Sleep. Ask Hermès.
  107. Charlie Munger’s Learning Machine (In Plain English)