Vet the GC as rigorously as the GC vets you to protect cash flow and culture

Blue Collar Business Ep 32: Dirt to Dollars, Excavating Success with Clay Hudspeth (HudX) · Sy Kirby

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

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

Reveal whether a franchise fee buys you a launch pad or a lasting competitive edge.

Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

Before entering a market, ask: is it big and interesting, can we make it better, and is it a good business to be in?

Michael Rubin on Building Fanatics Into a Billion-Dollar Empire (Boardroom cover story) · Boardroom (Rich Kleiman)

Make from genuine personal fascination, then impose a three-act structure — the drama comes from the structure, not the subject.

LIVE: Casey Neistat Unfiltered on Modern YouTube — The Colin and Samir Show (Press Publish NYC) · The Colin and Samir Show

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

The three signals Lubetzky looks for in a founder — and the order he learned them in.

Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast

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

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Pick industries and partners where repeated trust compounds into wealth nobody can copy.

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Compound trust and returns by committing to iterated relationships where cooperation wins.

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Select careers where creative leverage decouples your hours from your economic output.

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Score foods by blood-sugar impact per serving, not by label claims or guesswork

Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO

Replace GI guesswork with glycemic load precision to control blood sugar by portion size.

Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO

One customer testimonial outperforms a hundred sales pitches—collect, deploy, and systematise proof

The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer

Convert any selling conversation into a buying conversation using structured intelligent questions

The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer

Define the exact customer you can best serve so you stop wasting time on the rest

The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja

Choose keywords where relevance, search volume, and low competition intersect

Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah

Find accurate explanations by cataloging evidence patterns and resisting your assumptions.

CIA Spy: Is Kanye Mentally Ill or a Narcissist? This is What His Behavior REALLY Reveals... — Lisa Bilyeu · Lisa Bilyeu

Uncover serial good decision-makers by watching how PMs trade—not just monthly snapshots.

Disintermediating Pod Shops | Will England, Derek Drummond, and Tony Caruso Ep.501 — Capital Allocators with Ted Seides · Capital Allocators with Ted Seides

Turn RSS overload into a ranked, summarized daily briefing using AI deduplication

eReaders, Kindle, Kobo, and Workflows with Jason Snell — Mac Power Users · Mac Power Users

Detect when weak governance is pushing an institution toward irreversible norm collapse

God, AI, and the Coming Violence | Will Manidis — Hidden Forces · Hidden Forces

Take extreme ownership of your birth experience by questioning defaults and self-educating

Making Bitcoin Babies: Sovereignty Starts in the Womb | Bitcoin 2026 — Bitcoin Magazine · Bitcoin Magazine

Mobilize auditors on day one before evidence disappears and leverage is lost.

Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back — All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast

Flip your AI buying sequence so developers validate viability before capital commits.

Anthropic And OpenAI Just Admitted The Model Isn't Enough. — AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones · AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Find undervalued assets by matching your unique tolerances to others' deal-breakers

21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson

Evaluate partners and allies by setting minimum standards, not maximum wish lists

21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson

Cut your partner criteria to three core requirements and consciously negotiate the rest

21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson

Evaluate any digital identity proposal by asking whether it replicates the rights you already hold in physical space.

The Digital ID Trap Is Closing Faster Than You Think (your version, lock as-is) — TFTC · TFTC

Prove only what's needed—share cryptographic proofs, never identity documents

The Digital ID Trap Is Closing Faster Than You Think (your version, lock as-is) — TFTC · TFTC

Match identity verification depth to relationship context—never over-identify.

The Digital ID Trap Is Closing Faster Than You Think (your version, lock as-is) — TFTC · TFTC

Match model size to task complexity and measure energy cost before defaulting to the biggest available LLM.

We're Doing AI All Wrong. Here's How to Get It Right · Sasha Luccioni

Decompose any agent task into three phases: observe the environment, reason over what you know, then act with humans.

Everything You Need to Know About AI Agents · Swami Sivasubramanian

Time in the market beats timing: children's ISAs are the safest equity investment that exists

How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill

Your executor is doing your final tax return while grieving — pick someone who won't buckle under both.

68% of People Are Making This Expensive Mistake · Sam Grice

Match your fixed-rate term to where rates are heading and what your life requires

UK Mortgage Expert: The Key Things You Need To Know · Anthony Emmerson

Spend time at the wealth level above yours to make the next step feel inevitable

From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo

Expertise builds confidence faster than it builds competence — and experts are the most dangerous victims

The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner

The returns you see are the markets that survived — the losers were quietly erased

The Golden Age of Returns is Over · Mike Staunton & Paul Marsh

Financial media's incentive structure guarantees bad forecasts — by design

If You Understand This, You'll Never Fear a Market Crash Again · William J. Bernstein

Couples don't fight about money — they split it until one holds all the fear.

Therapist Explains: How to Fix Your Money Issues · Vicky Reynal

Headline GDP growth tells you nothing about living standards — check disposable income.

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

Diagnose where any actor falls between Trump backing down and consequences

TACO vs. FAFO: Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer on acronyms describing Trump #TEDTalks · Ian Bremmer

Act fast, preserve tissue, and choose the right pain relief to maximize reattachment chances.

What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth · TED-Ed

Convert starches to sugars, then let yeast do the rest.

How did ancient civilizations brew beer? - Malcolm Purinton · TED-Ed

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

Stop optimising 1% on a small base — grow the base instead.

I Wish I'd Saved Less When I Was Younger · Olly Richards

Copy the full toolkit or don't copy at all.

Who's Really Crashing the Economy? · Ha-Joon Chang

Social media algorithms are primitive AI that already broke democracy — the T-Rex is next

Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear The Country Apart! · Yuval Noah Harari

Civilisational fragility rises when change rate exceeds evolutionary bandwidth

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