Plan around results and reasons first, then brainstorm massive action, so your days serve outcomes that matter rather than to-do lists.
Awaken the Giant Within · Tony Robbins
Entrepreneurs can tell you the exact moment the light went on. Design your life to be on the right street.
Don Vultaggio on How I Built This with Guy Raz (full episode) · Wondery / Guy Raz
Eliminate incentive gaps to unlock founder-quality output from everyone you hire or work for
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
One key signal activates an entire behavior sequence; know the trigger, own the response.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Treat your marketing team as part publisher — build a systematic content production engine
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Turn a well-defined problem into working software without coding skills using AI as your collaborative co-designer.
Max Tannahill: A Modest Bitcoin Proposal — Watchman Privacy · Watchman Privacy
Match identity verification depth to relationship context—never over-identify.
The Digital ID Trap Is Closing Faster Than You Think (your version, lock as-is) — TFTC · TFTC
Treat developmental traits as features built for the life-stage's job, not bugs to suppress.
The Surprising Science of Adolescent Brains · Jennifer Pfeifer
Remove every adoption barrier yourself when launching infrastructure-dependent tech in underserved markets.
How to Make Transportation Quieter, Cleaner and Cheaper · Doreen Orishaba
Design AI to challenge your thinking, not replace it — preserve engagement, offer resistance, scaffold metacognition.
How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking · Advait Sarkar
Financial habits are being set by age seven — start before school shapes the wrong ones
How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill
A will isn't for you — you're dead. It's the last financial decision you make for the people you love.
68% of People Are Making This Expensive Mistake · Sam Grice
Private savings bridge you to 75; a sustainable state pension carries you for life.
Britain's Pension System Is In Danger · Tom McPhail
Evaluate government announcements by long-run commitment, not short-run numbers
Your Taxes Are About to Go Up (Again) · Helen Miller
Calm, context, and curiosity are the only defences against being manipulated by numbers.
Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford
Wealth buys political rules that protect wealth — the self-reinforcing loop that stalls reform
Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf
The ultra-rich own everything you transact through — and you've never heard of them
The Rich Will Bankrupt Us All - Gary's Economics · Gary Stevenson
Insert space between event and reaction so higher-order thinking can engage
Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew
Match the economic school to the question — no single theory explains everything.
Who's Really Crashing the Economy? · Ha-Joon Chang
Judge any pension policy by individual comfort AND state sustainability simultaneously
The Government's Plan to Change Your Pension · Torsten Bell MP
AI's deepest threat is not unemployment but purposelessness — men don't kill themselves because they're poor
Uber CEO: I Have To Be Honest, AI Will Replace 9.4 Million Jobs At Uber! · Dara Khosrowshahi
Design transport systems that work for human psychology by applying behavioral science to complement engineering and economic approaches
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? · Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland
Understand the brain as a pattern-making system that excels at developing ideas but struggles to generate them, requiring lateral thinking to escape established patterns
The Mechanism of Mind: Understand How Your Mind Works · Edward de Bono
Sound shapes your hormones, emotions, thinking, and behavior — design it consciously
The 4 Ways Sound Affects Us · Julian Treasure
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Find magical solutions by abandoning naive logic in human affairs
Alchemy · Rory Sutherland
Think ahead when you are calm so you do not have to think under stress
How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed · Daniel Levitin
Start with links and big buckets then let folder structure emerge from patterns rather than imposing it upfront
Give Me 15 Minutes. I'll Teach You 80% of Obsidian · Nick Milo
Use AI to kill bad ideas fast, deepen good ones, and fact-check your own biases before committing resources
How Gumroad's CEO uses ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil Lavingia · Sahil Lavingia
Build a lattice of cross-disciplinary mental models to reduce blind spots and make better decisions
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 · Shane Parrish
Evaporate conflicts at their root instead of merely managing symptoms
Conflicts · Edward de Bono
Replace two-sided arguments with three-party creative design
Conflicts · Edward de Bono
Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving as the foundation of operational excellence
The Toyota Way · Jeffrey K. Liker
Treat habit building as iterative design experiments rather than willpower tests
Design Your Work: Praxis Volume 1 · Tiago Forte
Apply behavioral science principles systematically to solve innovation contradictions
Evolutionary Ideas · Sam Tatam
Three-element structure that separates real strategy from fluffy goals and slogans
Good Strategy Bad Strategy · Richard Rumelt
Understand how persistent system access works to protect yourself from scammers who exploit remote access tools
A Scammer Bought Our Hacked Laptop · Scammer Payback
Three intentional breaths to shift from anxiety to warm-hearted calm in under a minute
How To Be Calm — Rick Hanson · Rick Hanson
Create the environmental conditions where breakthrough ideas naturally emerge
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation · Steven Johnson
Use recurring self-awareness questions to realign your life with what actually matters
2 Hours in 10 Minutes James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (+Breaking) Habits · James Clear
Submit to reality and build mastery through rigorous, humble, observational learning
Mastery Side Material · Robert Greene
Identify whether your motivation system matches the type of work you need done
Drive · Daniel H. Pink
Master six right-brain aptitudes to thrive as the economy shifts from information to meaning
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future · Daniel H. Pink
Think ahead to prevent disasters because stressed brains cannot think clearly
How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed · Daniel Levitin
Protect minority perspectives and dissenting voices from the crushing conformity of democratic consensus
Democracy in America · Alexis de Tocqueville
Test strategy by imagining what must be true for it to succeed
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works · A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin
Solve complex problems by asking the right sequence of questions
The Goal · Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Innovate through inspiration, ideation, and implementation cycles
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation · Tim Brown
Turn your largest expense into a strategic advantage
Scaling Up Compensation · Verne Harnish & Sebastian Ross
Change behavior through environmental design, not punishment or willpower
Daniel Pink on Motivation, Drive, and What Science Tells Us · Daniel Pink