Make a large ask first so your real request looks like a generous concession.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Your voice, your notes, and your videos will mean more to your children than your crypto — plan both.
68% of People Are Making This Expensive Mistake · Sam Grice
Match your spending to your lifetime income curve, not just today's balance
The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner
Spend heavily now, promise implausible cuts later — a structural pattern in UK fiscal planning
Top Finance Experts React to the UK Budget 2024 · Paul Johnson & Claer Barrett
Money stores the output of your work — it's never the goal itself
Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden
Visualise five years out, then reverse-engineer the skills to get there.
The Investing & Crypto Expert: We Only Have 6 Years Until Everything Changes! · Raoul Pal
Use single bonds, not bond funds, to fund known future expenses with certainty.
The Right Way To Use Bonds · Ramin Nakisa
Knowledge, skills, and network compound to 300% outcomes; salary optimises the wrong thing
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: It's Time To Quit Your Job When You Feel This! · Reid Hoffman
Lock your competitive edge inside a local AI model—no secret sauce leaked to Big Tech.
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 — This Week in Startups · This Week in Startups
Ancient Babylonian wisdom for building wealth through disciplined saving, wise investing, and protecting your growing fortune
Clason Richest Man in Babylon: Timeless Financial Wisdom · George S. Clason
The most important innovations create something entirely new rather than copying what already exists
Going from Zero to One · Peter Thiel
Understanding how the brain constructs time to improve decision-making, planning, and present-moment awareness
Your Brain Is a Time Machine · Dean Buonomano
Key patterns from successful startup founders: persistence through rejection, pivoting, and staying close to users
Founders at Work · Jessica Livingston
Master the Core Four principles and six psychological traps to build wealth in any market
Unshakeable by Tony Robbins · Tony Robbins
Deliberately let your mind wander to unlock creativity and strategic thinking
How to Get Your Brain to Focus · Chris Bailey
Lock your future self into good decisions before temptation arrives
Katy Milkman on "How to Change" - Think Better Speaker Series · Katy Milkman
Build a values-driven financial plan that fits on a single page
The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to Be Smart About Your Money · Carl Richards
Three invisible forces that sabotage every valuation you will ever do
Session 1: Introduction to Valuation · Aswath Damodaran
Start from a vivid future vision, then work backward to determine what you must do today
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs · David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano
Your imagined risk tolerance bears no resemblance to your actual response under pressure
Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions · Morgan Housel
Operate only in high-level vision or ground-level execution — never the middle
Gary Vaynerchuk on Entrepreneurship, Hustle, and Social Media · Gary Vaynerchuk
The silence of the cosmos makes human survival our most urgent project
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity · Elon Musk
The self that lives and the self that remembers want different things
Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice · Daniel Kahneman
Your brain is a battlefield between rationality and instant gratification
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate · Tim Urban
Bind your present self to honor the commitments of your wiser past self
Thinking in Bets: Key Concepts and Framework · Annie Duke
The self that lives your life and the self that judges it disagree
Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice (Knowledge Project) · Daniel Kahneman
Organize all information by actionability, not by topic
Confronting my Productivity Guru - Tiago Forte (Deep Dive) · Ali Abdaal & Tiago Forte
Find the right path to success
The New One Minute Manager - Ken Blanchard & Johnson, Spencer, M D · Unknown
Regularly valuate your business
What's Your Business Worth? the Entrepreneur and Advisor's Guide to Discovering, Monitoring, and Optimizing Business ... · Carter, Michael M, Priestley, Daniel, Gabehart, Scott
Invest in growth-stock mutual funds
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded · Dave Ramsey
Invest 15% of income
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded · Dave Ramsey
Planning for the future
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded · Dave Ramsey
Pick three outcomes you want to accomplish each day and each week to work with deliberate intention instead of reacting to whatever comes your way
The Productivity Project · Chris Bailey
When the future is uncertain, let strategy emerge through learning; when the path is clear, execute deliberately
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership · John C. Maxwell
Being reasonable beats being coldly rational because you'll actually stick with it
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness · Morgan Housel
Intentional mind-wandering that unlocks creativity, planning, and recharging
Hyperfocus · Chris Bailey
Lock in your intentions with effort pacts, price pacts, and identity pacts — precommitments that make distraction harder, costlier, or incompatible with who you are
Indistractable · Nir Eyal
Widen your relationship to time
Robert Greene 2 Books Collection Set (The Laws of Human · Robert Greene
Use awareness of death to cut through noise and commit fully to what matters
The Daily Laws - Robert Greene · Robert Greene
Predict competitor behavior by analyzing their goals, assumptions, and capabilities
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Commit now to save more later by linking increases to future raises
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness · Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Separate must-do operational goals from moonshot stretch goals
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Eliminate existing debt while building immunity to future borrowing
Profit First for Contractors: Transform your Construction Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine · Shawn Van Dyke
Use stories of plausible futures to reveal hidden assumptions about the present
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook · Peter Senge
Trace structural patterns across systems to reveal shared origins
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol I · Charles Darwin
Work backward from success and failure to plan the path
Thinking in Bets · Annie Duke
Map possible futures and weight them by probability before deciding
Thinking in Bets · Annie Duke
Decode emotions and intentions by reading the involuntary language of the face
Blink the power of thinking without thinking · Gladwell Malcolm
A five-component strategic planning process that begins with values and noble cause, then moves t...
Tribal Leadership Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a · Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright