Build monopolies by combining network effects, zero marginal cost, and scale economies

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Detect when safety rhetoric is being weaponized to build competitive moats and entrench monopolies.

Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom — All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast

Finance rarely builds — it mostly finds clever ways to move wealth from one pocket to another

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Inequality earned by creating value is a feature; inequality extracted through monopoly or monetary policy is a bug

The Interest Rate Crisis Has Just Begun · Edward Chancellor

Wealth buys political rules that protect wealth — the self-reinforcing loop that stalls reform

Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf

Democracy and capitalism need each other — but inequality pulls them apart

Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf

Don't fund what the market would do anyway — government money must add net output, not subsidise profits.

Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce

A single credible exception breaks institutional monocultures non-linearly

The Professor Banned From Speaking Out: 'We Need To Start Preparing' · Bret Weinstein

Competition is for losers—build a monopoly by creating something nobody else can

Competition is for Losers · Peter Thiel

The most valuable businesses are built on truths that most people disagree with or have not yet discovered

Peter Thiel Interview Full Episode The Tim Ferriss Show Podcast · Peter Thiel

Cutting-edge AI spreads fast; what was unique becomes ubiquitous

What Just Happened · Ethan Mollick

Identify when companies use charm and ideology to avoid accountability

How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions · Scott Galloway

Control the market

Robert Greene 2 Books Collection Set (The Laws of Human · Robert Greene

Stay fluid like water; let go of rigid control to gain real power

The 50th Law · 50 Cent & Robert Greene

Exploit rivals' inability to change; combat your own organizational decay

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt

Balancing patent incentives for translation against public access to taxpayer-funded discoveries.

Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya · Andrew Huberman

Ensuring taxpayers benefit from research they fund through access and pricing equity.

Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya · Andrew Huberman

Combine your unique self with scalable products to create wealth nobody else can replicate

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Eric Jorgenson

Discover and develop the unique knowledge society cannot train you for

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness · Eric Jorgenson

Superior distribution alone can create a monopoly; inferior distribution alone can destroy one

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Escape competition by creating and dominating a category of one

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Value equals market scale multiplied by Power -- both are necessary, neither alone is sufficient

7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer

Manufacture 70% of components in-house rather than outsourcing to suppliers

Elon Musk · Walter Isaacson