Spend extravagantly on what you love, cut mercilessly on what you don’t
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha — yap-natalie-ellis · Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Match leadership support to skill and temperament
Young and Profiting with Hala Taha — yap-aliza-pressman · Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
You do not need original ideas to make money — copy proven models wholesale and don't change the working part.
Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai · Codie Sanchez
A great business hits you in the head with a 2x4 — usually because one input in the equation is free or anomalous.
Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai · Codie Sanchez
Find the branch leader first, embed them in HQ for three months, then build the market around them
Owned and Operated: He Built a $100M HVAC Business (Chad Peterman, Peterman Brothers) · John Wilson
Three public data sources let you model a septic market before spending a dollar on entry
Owned and Operated: Why Septic is the Most Underrated Business in America (Epic Septic) · John Wilson
Size each branch to stay under $20M so central infrastructure can support it without a local management layer
Owned and Operated: He Built a $100M HVAC Business (Chad Peterman, Peterman Brothers) · John Wilson
Pool install crews across proximate branches so sold work is never delayed by one branch running short on labor
Owned and Operated: He Built a $100M HVAC Business (Chad Peterman, Peterman Brothers) · John Wilson
Virtual ride-along coaches follow every new tech for 30-60 days, curating the real-job learning that onboarding alone cannot deliver
Owned and Operated: He Built a $100M HVAC Business (Chad Peterman, Peterman Brothers) · John Wilson
Score market geography before evaluating any business-specific metrics in a service acquisition
Owned and Operated: I Have $5M, Do I Buy an HVAC Company or a Security Business? · John Wilson
Cap headcount at owner plus five to maximize excavation margins
Blue Collar Business Ep 32: Dirt to Dollars, Excavating Success with Clay Hudspeth (HudX) · Sy Kirby
Every pump-out is a diagnostic appointment that generates same-day repair revenue at 50%+ margin
Owned and Operated: Why Septic is the Most Underrated Business in America (Epic Septic) · John Wilson
Architect the business for transferability from day one, not after the grind
Blue Collar Business Ep 32: Dirt to Dollars, Excavating Success with Clay Hudspeth (HudX) · Sy Kirby
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
Life moves in four seasons: prepare for winter (adversity), seize spring (opportunity), defend summer, and harvest in fall.
Jim Rohn - The Challenge to Succeed Seminar (Anaheim, California 1981) · Jim Rohn
The causal chain of personal success: philosophy shapes attitude, attitude drives activity, activity produces results, and results become your lifestyle.
The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle · Jim Rohn
Build living culture through deliberate hiring and repeated leader behavior
UpFlip Ep222: College Hunks $300M/yr (Nick Friedman) — The UpFlip Podcast · The UpFlip Podcast
Cascade a 10-year audacious goal into quarterly actions that compound into results
UpFlip Ep222: College Hunks $300M/yr (Nick Friedman) — The UpFlip Podcast · The UpFlip Podcast
Underwrite variable-revenue businesses to their stabilized earnings floor, not peak years
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Enter through the practical, special-interest content the incumbents think is beneath them, then use that beachhead to open the category they left undefended.
Stuart Karl: Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc · CED Magic
Price a rental-only product to own instead, anchor it to content worth repeating, and let ownership pull the hardware market up with you.
Stuart Karl: Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc · CED Magic
High margin, near-total cash conversion, zero capex — a royalty business should be valued like SaaS, not retail.
Jamie Salter on Brand Strategy & AI — Reuters Momentum (AC15) editorial interview · Reuters (interviewer: Arriana McLymore) — reupload via DWS News
Buy brands people love that are attached to companies that are failing.
Jamie Salter on Brand Strategy & AI — Reuters Momentum (AC15) editorial interview · Reuters (interviewer: Arriana McLymore) — reupload via DWS News
You owe the platform new formats — run content in cycles, give others permission, and don't let the leaderboard cap your genius.
How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny — The Colin & Samir Show · Colin & Samir
Always solve tasks just a little too hard for the model — keeping a human in the loop is what builds the data flywheel.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Demos work 60% of the time; enterprises need the nines. Prioritize reliability over everything, then climb the abstraction ladder.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
You don't have to re-run evolution's compute to reach AGI — you can behaviorally clone everything humans already know.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Economic value is in knowledge work, so train multimodal models on charts, tables, invoices, PDFs and UIs — not COCO.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
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)
Itemize the workflows where every step has an API and the count is near zero — so the agent must see and act on the screen like a human.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Ship the expert's authentic, rough explanation instead of polishing to the "best possible" script — breadth and a real voice over distilled perfection.
Brady Haran: YouTube's One-Man Liberal Arts Degree · The Create Unknown (Kevin Lieber & Matt Tabor)
Don't hoard footage for one polished film nobody watches — release the raw process continuously and let people follow in real time.
Brady Haran: YouTube's One-Man Liberal Arts Degree · The Create Unknown (Kevin Lieber & Matt Tabor)
Build a durable independent podcast network on believed-in sponsorship plus listener memberships — and on shows that outlast any single host, sponsor, or tool.
Building an Indie Podcast Network with Myke Hurley (Streamlined Solopreneur) · Myke Hurley
One model that generalizes across three axes — the skills it can do, the bodies it can control, and the realities it can master.
Jim Fan on Nvidia's Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang's Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous · Sequoia Capital (Training Data)
Robotics doesn't need a new model — it needs a three-source data engine: internet-scale + simulation + real-robot.
Jim Fan on Nvidia's Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang's Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous · Sequoia Capital (Training Data)
Build the generalist first, then distill it down — a specialized generalist beats a native specialist almost every time.
Jim Fan on Nvidia's Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang's Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous · Sequoia Capital (Training Data)
Let the agent write code as its action space — then save what works to a skill library it authors itself.
Jim Fan on Nvidia's Embodied AI Lab and Jensen Huang's Prediction that All Robots will be Autonomous · Sequoia Capital (Training Data)
Stack life from broad theme down to the concrete decision in front of you.
Your Theme (CGP Grey) · CGP Grey
Build leverage by sequencing accountability, specific knowledge, and permissionless skills
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Eliminate incentive gaps to unlock founder-quality output from everyone you hire or work for
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Layer specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage to climb from day labor to wealth.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Build monopolies by combining network effects, zero marginal cost, and scale economies
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Take accountability like an equity stake to unlock proportional upside in any work
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Visualize your health futures to turn abstract disease risk into urgent, daily action
Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO
Use your imagined worst-case diagnosis to make wiser health choices today
Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO
A 4-step behavior-change framework that builds motivation through goals, resources, increments, and noticing progress
Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO
Quantify your intervention window to reclaim drug-free metabolic health before odds fall.
Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO
Flip the causal arrow—cultivate gratefulness first and let happiness follow as its natural effect
Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast — TED · TED
Build genuine friendships with customers—friendships are immune to competition and price negotiation
The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer
Convert strategy into four to five precise pre-call actions that make the next meeting count
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja