All frameworks

Supporting grieving individuals

Data-driven decision making

Managing Perception

Manage crisis with transparency and urgency

Ensuring taxpayers benefit from research they fund through access and pricing equity.

The three essential functions every platform must perform to generate valuable interactions

Targeted laser treatment

Every pump-out is a diagnostic appointment that generates same-day repair revenue at 50%+ margin

Punish those who cheat

The emotion that promotes cooperation

Measure cognitive load via pupil size

Optimizing purchasing strategies

Find your purpose

Revive a failing company by unleashing human magic through purpose and empowerment

Replace unbridled enthusiasm with deliberate, methodical purpose.

State-funded asset inflation creates a legitimate case for a targeted windfall levy

Quality, Quantity, Regularity, Timing

Optimize sleep for better mental health

Cultivating quality in all aspects of life

Choose high-quality supplements

A refinement of Nash equilibrium

Measure to improve

Establish relationships to achieve integration benefits

Sell the business early in decline

There's no such thing as quick easy money

Buck up and do the unglamorous work that must be done, whether you feel like it or not

Resilience isn't being unbreakable; it's moving through pain with purpose and showing up again.

Design Your Quit

True freedom comes from owning your failures completely without deflection

The best feedback combines caring personally about someone with the courage to challenge them directly

Care personally AND challenge directly—most managers only do one

Care personally and challenge directly at the same time

Treat employees like adults and they will act like adults

Eliminating lying as a behavior has outsized second-order effects on reputation and clarity

Own yourself first, then own your work and your future

Reduce until reduction stops being helpful, then stop

Question everything, assume nothing

CEOs get bad data because they give bad signals — transparency is a reciprocal exchange protocol

Building trust by telling employees the full truth, especially when it hurts

Create an environment of complete honesty and openness where issues are surfaced and dealt with directly

Build children's resilience through control, growth mindset, mattering, and real strengths

Companies run at room temperature by default. Founders are exothermic — they inject heat into the system. The job is to protect that heat from being politicked away.

Separate fact from fiction

Seven sequential steps from debt crisis to lasting wealth and generosity

Obtain a genuinely external entry point to break free of dominant thought patterns using a randomly selected word

Make unpredictable choices

Acting randomly to achieve the best outcome

Prioritize ideas

Rape as an evolved adaptation

Rape as a byproduct of other evolved mechanisms

Understanding the social and cultural factors that contribute to rape

Understanding the impact of rape on victims

Fast and accurate diagnosis

Test, iterate, repeat

Plan around results and reasons first, then brainstorm massive action, so your days serve outcomes that matter rather than to-do lists.

Build to think, fail fast, and iterate quickly -- a rough prototype is worth a thousand words

Build to think, don't think to build

Iterate Fast

Fail fast, refine quickly

Reframe anger through benefit-finding and use quick physical techniques to lower stress instantly