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