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)
World-class managers coach to known behaviors and innovate around unknown obstacles to unstick deals
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
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
Every decision should be evaluated at the last unit, not the average
The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner
Nations that cooperate internally outperform those that conflict — inequality is a productivity tax.
Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce
Admit your limits, buy the index, stop trying to beat professionals who already lose 95% of the time.
The One Thing You Need To Invest In · Ramin Nakisa
Structure innovation into three separate buckets — the 10% bet is where paradigm returns live
Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! · Eric Schmidt
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
Spread unavoidable disappointment evenly so no single life domain catastrophically fails.
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) — Lenny's Podcast · Lenny's Podcast
Fall in love with your client, not your product—become the most trusted advisor in your market
The Strategy of Preeminence · Jay Abraham
Build a workplace where people come for the growth, stay for the culture, and thrive because of the meaning
World's Greatest Workplace · Vishen Lakhiani
Trade benefits both parties even when one is better at producing everything
On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation · David Ricardo
Distinguish genuine knowledge from pseudoscience using falsifiability as the test
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper
Diagnose why your organization cannot pursue disruptive opportunities despite wanting to
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
Understand why well-managed companies fail when new technologies emerge from below
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
Your attention is a garden to tend not a resource to optimize
#1 Time EXPERT: Being Productive Is Making You MISERABLE · Oliver Burkeman
When luxury spending by one institution forces competitors to sacrifice mission
Revisionist History - Food Fight (S1E5) · Malcolm Gladwell
To pick something up, you must first put something down
Chris Williamson: If You Don't Fix This Now, 2026 Is Already Over! · Chris Williamson
Focus on your strengths to achieve success
Two Wise Men Stories for Children Inspired from the Wit and - Vishal Khandelwal & S B Vallari · Unknown
Is your system limited by its weakest element or elevated by its strongest?
My Little Hundred Million - Revisionist History S1E6 · Malcolm Gladwell
Impact, execution, and optics — align all three or fail at one
Shreyas Doshi on Pre-Mortems, the LNO Framework, and Strategy vs. Execution · Shreyas Doshi
Every dollar and hour should make the product better — or stop spending them
Elon Musk USC Commencement Speech · Elon Musk
You have a limited number of fucks to give; spend them wisely
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck · Mark Manson
Let AI think longer before answering to dramatically improve results
What Just Happened · Ethan Mollick
FUN, INVESTING, GIVING
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded · Dave Ramsey
Navigate partnerships in the tech industry
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Focus on High-Impact Goals
Covey, Sean - The 4 Disciplines of Execution · Covey, Sean
High-leverage activities
Covey, Sean - The 4 Disciplines of Execution · Covey, Sean
Prices as info
The Bitcoin Standard · Saifedean Ammous
Knowledge is power
The Bitcoin Standard · Saifedean Ammous
Value life in hours
Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: R... · Vicki Robin
Spend with intention
Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: R... · Vicki Robin
Portfolio Evaluation
Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter
Optimizing resource allocation
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Bid on multiple items simultaneously
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Bid Until You Reach Your Value
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Bid Your True Value
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
When the future is uncertain, let strategy emerge through learning; when the path is clear, execute deliberately
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Resources, Processes, and Values determine what an organization can and cannot do
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Constrain resources to force innovation and efficiency
Profit First: A Simple System To Transform Any Business From A Cash-Eating Monster To A Money-Making Machine · Mike Michalowicz
How Multipliers extract and extend 2X more capability from their people than Diminishers
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter · Liz Wiseman
A manager's output equals the output of his organization plus the neighboring organizations under his influence
High Output Management · Andrew S. Grove
Effort allocation
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Conflict over resources in the womb
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Conflict over resources
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Explaining male parental care
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Understanding the necessities and luxuries of mate preferences
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, - David M Buss · Unknown
Flip the accounting equation: Revenue minus Profit equals Expenses
Profit First for Minority Business Enterprises · Susanne Mariga
Choose your customers strategically to improve margins and competitive position
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter
Freedom and responsibility within a framework, replacing bureaucracy with self-discipline
Good to Great · Jim Collins