Acquire unprofitable small operators using asymmetric knowledge and turn them profitable

Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

Progress from knowledge deficit to frontier-level insight to spot deals others miss

Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

Convert one-shot deals into repeat games to align incentives and eliminate cheating

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Anchor your liquid portfolio in self-custodied Bitcoin, then use ecosystem instruments as accumulation fuel

Peter Dunworth: $300 Trillion Is About to Flow Into Bitcoin — Robin Seyr · Robin Seyr

Master the two things that matter in any venture deal: how the economics work and who has control of the company

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

Recognize how negative content economics distort your information diet and warp your view of reality

AI Negativity Bias · Sahil Bloom

Negative emotions are not problems to eliminate but signals to decode

Mark Manson - Giving a F*ck About What Really Matters · Mark Manson

Twelve systematic failure modes that produce catastrophic choices

Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions · Morgan Housel

Selectively attract bad types

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.

Say less than necessary and control what others know about your intentions

Brainpicking Robert Greene: His Key Ideas About Power · The Sapiens Network

All strategic action is based on controlling what the opponent perceives

The Art of War · Sun Tzu

Double knowledge of self and opponent eliminates uncertainty in competition

The Art of War · Sun Tzu

Don't reveal your hand; read other players by making them reveal theirs.

The Trading Game: A Confession · Gary Stevenson

Estimate the odds, update with evidence, and prepare for fat tails

The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 General Thinking Concepts · Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien

We understand time by mapping it onto space -- and this mapping distorts our thinking.

Your Brain Is a Time Machine The Neuroscience and Physics · Dean Buonomano

Every spike of pleasure triggers a mirror-image dip in pain -- manage both

How to Increase Motivation & Drive · Andrew Huberman

Assume unseen problems always exist and build systems to surface them proactively

Creativity, Inc. · Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace

Acquire cheap options with capped downside and unlimited upside

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Control what others know and don't know to maintain decisive advantage

The 48 Laws of Power · Robert Greene