A market-creating bet that pencils out on analysis still needs a live, in-person event to convert intellectual interest into capital-grade conviction — go stand in the building before you commit.
MLS Growth Story: A Conversation With Don Garber and Jonathan Kraft (MIT Sloan SSAC 2020) · MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
A research org wins by concentrating compute on a few big bets and disbanding the rest — not by letting a bottom-up credit market allocate it.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Innovation doesn't come from the mainstream — it comes from islands. The internet has nearly eliminated islands. Building one is the act of founder sovereignty.
Invest Like the Best EP.394 — Tobi Lütke: Building Islands of Innovation · Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus
Quarterly community-giving program as both ritual and culture-binding mechanism.
Patrick Terry on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Win by focusing on customer discrepancies, not on what your competitor is doing
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Grade every teaching pitch for boldness before it gets watered down to the safe middle
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Collect irrefutable proof you are capable before fear convinces you otherwise
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
Central government should handle global-scale decisions and devolve everything else to those on the front line
Labour MP: This Budget Just Tax The Rich! · Liam Byrne
Home bias is always wrong — own the world, not your postcode
The Golden Age of Returns is Over · Mike Staunton & Paul Marsh
Nations that cooperate internally outperform those that conflict — inequality is a productivity tax.
Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce
Match the economic school to the question — no single theory explains everything.
Who's Really Crashing the Economy? · Ha-Joon Chang
Decompose past returns to set realistic forward expectations
The Problem With Saving 10% of Your Income · Ben Felix
Replace fixed withdrawal rates with course-corrected, lifestyle-aware retirement spending
The Problem With Saving 10% of Your Income · Ben Felix
Projecting unshakeable confidence in markets while internally collapsing accelerates the damage
The Rogue Trader Who Lost £862 Million · Nick Leeson
In exponential platform waves, slope locks in winners before observers notice the gap
Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! · Eric Schmidt
BTC's addressable market is the sum of three independent mega-trends
Invest in This – It'll Be Worth $1.5 Million by 2030 | World Leading Investing Expert · Cathie Wood
AI eliminates the rungs, not the top — entry-level roles vanish while expertise stays
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
Frontier AI follows colonial logic — four extraction pillars, structural not personal
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
500 years of empire rise and fall driven by five interacting forces in an ~80-year cycle
Ray Dalio: We're Heading Into Very, Very Dark Times! America & The UK's Decline Is Coming! · Ray Dalio
Prove AI ROI fast by automating one repetitive workflow, then expand company-wide
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 — This Week in Startups · This Week in Startups
Trigger, action, variable reward, investment—the four-step cycle that builds product habits
What Makes Some Technology So Habit-Forming? · Nir Eyal
How products graduate from needing notifications to living in users' minds
The Hook Model: How to Manufacture Desire · Nir Eyal
Four repeating phases that turn product usage into automatic habit
The Hook Model: How to Manufacture Desire · Nir Eyal
Build wealth with radical simplicity using just two index funds across two life stages
JL Collins - The Simple Path to Wealth · JL Collins
Understand why well-managed companies fail when new technologies emerge from below
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
The most important strategic decision is which game to play, not how to play better
Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower · Seth Godin
Master self, story, philosophy, and team to achieve lasting greatness
The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life · Steven Bartlett
Every dollar and hour should make the product better — or stop spending them
Elon Musk USC Commencement Speech · Elon Musk
Own your product's success completely—no excuses, no dependencies
Good Product Manager Bad Product Manager · Ben Horowitz
Ensure your definition of success is genuinely yours, not absorbed from culture
How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love · Maria Popova
Diversified Investing
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
Enter new markets
Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter
Compete in international markets to escape maturity
Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter
Internalize externalities
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Interpret market signals to inform strategy
Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter
Transform an abstract target market into a concrete, real person whose prioritized needs and complete product journey drive every decision your team makes.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
Prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty to build dominant companies.
Blitzscaling · Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
Find your mission at the cutting edge of your field, not in advance of getting there
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love · Cal Newport
Accelerate how quickly cash flows through your business so growth generates cash instead of consuming it.
Scaling Up · Verne Harnish
A one-page document that organizes your entire brand narrative into a clear, repeatable message using all seven story elements.
Building a StoryBrand · Donald Miller
External, internal, and philosophical problems unlock deeper customer connection
Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen · Donald Miller
Align processes, structure, and culture around the customer's job
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice · Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
Systematically turn customer complaints and process jams into profit gains
Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises · Susanne Mariga
Systematically evaluate the strategic costs and benefits of vertical integration
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Read competitor signals and design moves that shape competitive outcomes
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Choose cost leadership, differentiation, or focus—or risk being stuck in the middle
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
A quarterly cadence for setting, tracking, scoring, and reflecting on goals
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Four-step cycle that turns products into unbreakable habits
Hooked · Nir Eyal
Test your strategy for commercial viability with three visual criteria
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Read your strategy's health from the shape of your value curve
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne