Convert one-shot deals into repeat games to align incentives and eliminate cheating
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Opportunities become more desirable as they become less available; restriction triggers desire
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
The 1945 stability architecture is collapsing — price in high-variance geopolitical tail risk now
You're Watching the End of the World in Real Time · Eric Weinstein
Institutions actively manage the information environment to suppress high-leverage ideas
You're Watching the End of the World in Real Time · Eric Weinstein
Distinguish genuine knowledge from pseudoscience using falsifiability as the test
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper
Create knowledge gaps that pull people toward your message irresistibly
Made to Stick · Chip Heath
Measure learning effectiveness by the rate of mistaken assumptions revealed, not information consumed
Extend Your Mind · Tiago Forte
Treat your beliefs as hypotheses and continuously update them with new data
The Cook and the Chef: Musk's Secret Sauce · Tim Urban
Stop being resilient—build systems that get stronger from chaos
Antifragility · Nassim Taleb
Every decision is a bet — evaluate the process, not the outcome
Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong (Knowledge Project) · Annie Duke
Balance Risk & Reward
I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works. · Ramit Sethi
Uncertainty in game theory
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Designing effective auctions
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Strategic information elicitation
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Anticipate the actions of others
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Partial separation of types
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Refusing to signal conveys info
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Absence of signal conveys info
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Selectively attract bad types
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Eliciting information through incentives
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Actions speak louder than words
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Cutting off communication can protect strategic moves
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Preventing cheating in business
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Think forward, reason backward
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Visualize Strategic Situations
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Anticipate outcomes
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Be cautious of uneven information
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
When to follow and when to lead
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Don't chase streaks
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Strategic decision making
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Engage sight, sound, and touch to create presentations with dramatically higher recall
Talk Like TED · Carmine Gallo
Mapping influence networks and building strategic alliances to advance your agenda beyond direct authority
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded_Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter · Michael D. Watkins
Navigate to find a mate
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Allocation of effort between parenting and mating
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Read competitor signals and design moves that shape competitive outcomes
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Predict competitor behavior by analyzing their goals, assumptions, and capabilities
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Three reward types that create craving through unpredictable reinforcement
Hooked · Nir Eyal
Guard your limited attention as the currency of life quality
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience · Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Five interlinked practices that transform organizations into learning systems
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook · Peter Senge
Know many things broadly instead of one thing deeply
Range · David Epstein
Every organization is a tribe of tribes, and each tribe's culture falls on a five-stage spectrum ...
Tribal Leadership Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a · Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
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
The brain tells time through the ever-changing patterns of active neurons, not a single clock.
Your Brain Is a Time Machine The Neuroscience and Physics · Dean Buonomano
Self-esteem as a status-tracking mechanism
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, · David M Buss
Understanding specialized mental processes
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, · David M Buss
Understanding mental processes
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, · David M Buss
Aging as loss of information
Lifespan Why we age{u2014}and why we don't have to · David A Sinclair
Resetting the epigenome
Lifespan Why we age{u2014}and why we don't have to · David A Sinclair
Nature's patterns
How Nature & Other Physical Environments Impact Your Focus, Cognition & Health | Dr. Marc Berman · Andrew Huberman
Collaboration in Science
How A Doctor Cured His Own Terminal Disease | Dr. David Fajgenbaum · Andrew Huberman