Kill a failing bet the moment you know, give the money back, and feel proud you acted quickly.
Michael Rubin on Building Fanatics Into a Billion-Dollar Empire (Boardroom cover story) · Boardroom (Rich Kleiman)
Pair a timeless skill with a timely field to create a career position no one else can copy
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Turn any green space into a biodiversity haven by mimicking the disturbances, grazing, and decay of wild ecosystems.
3 Tips to Make Your World Beautifully Wild · Isabella Tree
Every asset serves one of three motivations — protect, maintain, or improve your wealth.
The New Rules for Building Wealth in 2025 · Rob Dix
When formats become fakeable, trust migrates to institutions — not better formats
Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear The Country Apart! · Yuval Noah Harari
Multiply your success one small consistent step at a time by harnessing the exponential power of daily choices compounded over months and years
The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success · Darren Hardy
Find, face, frame, and form your way to competitive advantage through continuous learning and waste elimination
The Lean Strategy · Michael Balle
Discover how your best intentions may be shutting down smart people
The Accidental Diminisher | Liz Wiseman · Liz Wiseman
Three intentional breaths to shift from anxiety to warm-hearted calm in under a minute
How To Be Calm — Rick Hanson · Rick Hanson
Control your physiology, focus, and language to instantly change emotional state
Tony Robbins Returns (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show · Tony Robbins
Decode anyone's personality type within five interactions
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People · Vanessa Van Edwards
Treat your beliefs like hypotheses to be tested, not possessions to be defended
Adam Grant - Rethinking Your Position (The Knowledge Project Ep. #112) · Adam Grant
Reading teaches writing, and writing enables thinking that cannot happen otherwise
The Need to Read · Paul Graham
Embracing vulnerability is the only path to genuine connection
The Power of Vulnerability · Brené Brown
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it deeply enough
The Feynman Technique · Shane Parrish
Understand the system
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well · Douglas Stone
Distinguish between product loonshots that nobody thinks will work and strategy loonshots that nobody thinks will make money
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries · Safi Bahcall
Build to think, fail fast, and iterate quickly -- a rough prototype is worth a thousand words
Creative Confidence · Tom Kelley & David Kelley
Identify the three tasks that account for 90% of your value
Eat That Frog! · Brian Tracy
Respond quickly and intuitively
The 33 Strategies of War · Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
Stay calm under pressure
The 33 Strategies of War · Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
Adapt to win
The 33 Strategies of War · Robert Greene & Joost Elffers
Decide slowly by consensus, then implement rapidly
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer · Jeffrey K. Liker
Find exceptions to rules to unlock breakthrough discoveries
Interviews with the Masters: A Companion to Robert Greene’s Mastery · Robert Greene
Score your business model's structural strength on seven dimensions
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Know where you stand financially in under 30 minutes
Profit First for Real Estate Investing · David Richter
Organize your next actions by where you are and what tools you have, not by project
Getting Things Done · David Allen
Build to think, don't think to build
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Elevate your perspective beyond reactive present-moment thinking to see long-term patterns
The Laws of Human Nature · Robert Greene
Recognize the recurring structural patterns behind chronic problems
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook · Peter Senge
Not knowing the rules lets you rewrite them
Shoe Dog · Phil Knight
Distinguish product innovations from strategy innovations to avoid blind spots
Loonshots · Safi Bahcall
Explore broadly before you commit deeply
Range · David Epstein
Generate better alternatives by rigorously attacking your own best ideas
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt
Detect bad strategy by spotting fluff, missing challenges, goal-as-strategy, and bad objectives
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt
Harness your brain's hidden supercomputer for faster, smarter decisions
Blink the power of thinking without thinking · Gladwell Malcolm
Estimate the odds, update with evidence, and prepare for fat tails
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 General Thinking Concepts · Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien
Making decisions under immense pressure
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Think Outside the Box
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Remove formality to get honest answers through natural conversations
The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
Mirror someone's language patterns, vocabulary, and metaphors to build instant affinity
How to Talk to Anyone · Leil Lowndes
Build an intentional culture early because a broken culture cannot be fixed later
Masters of Scale · Reid Hoffman
Evolve processes so complex and tacit that competitors cannot replicate them in time
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer
Harness fast intuition and slow reasoning to make better decisions
Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman
Become your own cheerleader by controlling your self-talk and creating internal pressure to perform.
Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time · Brian Tracy