Insure large catastrophic risks only — take the highest excess you can afford
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Learn the language, build the community, use modern tools.
Finance doesn’t have to feel like a foreign language, says @YourRichBFF #TEDTalks · TED
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
Build a profitable sustainable business by rejecting growth-at-all-costs and embracing intentional constraints
Jason Fried Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast) · Jason Fried
Build clarity, confidence, commitment, and compassion before seeking love
The 4 C's of Self-Trust That Change Everything About Your Love Life! · Logan Ury
Create content worth reading by combining utility, inspiration, and empathy every time
Everybody Writes · Ann Handley
Create buying frenzies through structured demand-building campaigns
Oversubscribed · Daniel Priestley
Stop chasing happiness to find it—pursue meaningful struggle instead
The Feedback Loop from Hell · Mark Manson
Start with good people, make something customers want, and spend as little as possible
How to Start a Startup · Paul Graham
Find the obsessives first and let them spread your idea to the mainstream
How to get your ideas to spread · Seth Godin
Desire needs distance; intimacy needs closeness — master the tension between them
Esther Perel — The Relationship Episode: Sex, Love, Polyamory, Marriage, and More · Esther Perel
Freedom to choose is money's greatest and most overlooked advantage
Save Like a Pessimist Invest Like an Optimist · Morgan Housel
Save without a purpose to buy flexibility for the unknown
Morgan Housel — Walking and Thinking · Morgan Housel
Vulnerability minus boundaries equals manipulation, not courage
Brene Brown on Vulnerability, Shame, and Daring Greatly · Brene Brown & Tim Ferriss
Competition is power: the number of interested VCs determines your negotiating position more than any tactic
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Use questions to guide people to discover answers themselves rather than dictating solutions -- because conclusions you reach yourself are the only ones you truly own
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Third Revised Edition · Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The single most important factor in business success is choosing a market with massive, desperate demand before crafting your offer.
$100M Offers · Alex Hormozi
Embracing Urgency
The 33 Strategies of War · Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
Turn weakness into power by making the pursuer become the pursued
The Art Of Seduction (The Robert Greene Collection) · Robert Greene
Surrender control to truly understand another domain or culture
Interviews with the Masters: A Companion to Robert Greene’s Mastery · Robert Greene
Create urgency by eliminating retreat and forcing total commitment
The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books) · Robert Greene
Profile your target's hidden needs to tailor your influence approach
The Art Of Seduction (The Robert Greene Collection) · Robert Greene
Master one of nine character types to become irresistibly magnetic
The Art Of Seduction (The Robert Greene Collection) · Robert Greene
Five sources of insight for discovering unmet jobs in the wild
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice · Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
Identify the trap keeping busy contractors broke
Profit First for Contractors: Transform your Construction Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine · Shawn Van Dyke
Match your strategy to the specific conditions of the ground you occupy
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Master the ultimate test of consciousness: being alone without collapse
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Become an elusive object of desire by mastering the psychology of wanting
The Laws of Human Nature · Robert Greene
Not knowing the rules can be your greatest competitive advantage.
The Trading Game: A Confession · Gary Stevenson
Break the neurological link between rejection, control-seeking, and the dopamine trap of 'winning'
Stop Letting Everything Affect You How to break free from · Daniel Chidiac
Stalking as a means to retain a mate
When Men Behave Badly The Hidden Roots of Sexual · David M Buss
Systematically rebuild social bonds to reverse the biological damage of isolation
Lost Connections · Johann Hari
Dream massive goals but detach from timelines and let the journey be the reward
Twelve and a Half · Gary Vaynerchuk
Treat patience as the foundational crust that holds all other ingredients together
Twelve and a Half · Gary Vaynerchuk
Treat compliments as noise and redirect conversations toward concrete facts
The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
Move from insecure to secure attachment through deliberate practice and relationships
Attached · Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Break free from the anxious thought spirals that hijack your emotional life
Attached · Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
When leaving is the right choice, do it with clarity and minimal damage
Attached · Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
When your mind says you are done, you are really only 40% of the way there.
Can't Hurt Me · David Goggins
See your world as a collection of separate, fixable systems -- not one chaotic mass
Work the System · Sam Carpenter
Systematically choose difficulty over comfort to accelerate growth.
Mindset · Carol S. Dweck
Stop talking about what you want and start framing everything around what they want
How to Win Friends and Influence People · Dale Carnegie
Evolve processes so complex and tacit that competitors cannot replicate them in time
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer
Master timing, restraint, and long-term positioning to outlast opponents
The 48 Laws of Power · Robert Greene
Use agencies to learn skills fast, not to become dependent on them
$100M Leads · Alex Hormozi