Try to kill the dream; invest in whoever survives.
Mike Repole on Next Up with Adam Breneman (full episode) · Next Up with Adam Breneman
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
Filter every hire and partner through Intelligence, Energy, and Integrity—no exceptions.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Close only business where both sides win—or lose both the deal and your reputation long-term
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Develop the virtues of world-changers through suffering, integrity, and service to others
The 5 AM Club · Robin Sharma
A six-question protocol that moves stuck conflicts from positions to underlying dreams 87% of the time.
Relationship Advice from 50+ Years of Marriage · John and Julie Gottman
Parental wealth, not personal effort, is the dominant engine of opportunity in the 21st century.
The Wealth Gap No One Talks About · Eliza Filby
Eliminating lying as a behavior has outsized second-order effects on reputation and clarity
WARNING: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End! · Sam Harris
Apply ancient Zen principles to modern life through a practice that integrates sitting meditation with ethical action and everyday awareness
What is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind · Norman Fischer
A conscience check for product builders wielding habit-forming psychology
The Hook Model: How to Manufacture Desire · Nir Eyal
Oliver Burkeman introduces the concept of 'productivity debt' - the existential feeling that you wake up each morning...
Burned Out? Start Here. · Oliver Burkeman
Leverage cognitive biases ethically to create genuine improvements in customer experience
How Your Brain Gets Tricked By Clever Marketing - Rory Sutherland (4K) · Rory Sutherland
Design fair systems by deciding rules before knowing your position within them
A Theory of Justice · John Rawls
Inherited cultural patterns silently shape success and failure
Outliers: The Story of Success · Malcolm Gladwell
The most defensible market position is the one nobody else would choose
Rory Sutherland - 19 Of Human Behaviours Weirdest Quirks · Rory Sutherland
The best thing for your work ethic is to have a rest ethic — rest is not the absence of work but a practice unto itself
Kevin Kelly — Excellent Advice for Living · Kevin Kelly
Hard work is key
Charlie Munger: Life Lessons, Success, Principles and Mental Models from a Titan of Finance · Thorniley, Dave
Work as a path to freedom
The Richest Man in Babylon: George S. Clason International Bestseller Book ‘The Richest Man in Babylon’ for How to Gr... · George S. Clason
See people and power dynamics as they are, not as you wish them to be
The Daily Laws - Robert Greene · Robert Greene
Focus energy only where you can actually make a difference
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People · Stephen R. Covey
Four-quadrant ethical test for building habit-forming products
Hooked · Nir Eyal
Using survivor testimony as the foundation for both legal and moral accountability
The Prosecutor One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice · Jack Fairweather
How societies confront collective participation in systemic wrongdoing
The Prosecutor One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice · Jack Fairweather
Unwavering dedication to goals
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Ethics of cell transplantation
Curing Autism, Epilepsy & Schizophrenia with Stem Cells | Dr. Sergiu Pașca · Andrew Huberman
Assembloids ethics
Curing Autism, Epilepsy & Schizophrenia with Stem Cells | Dr. Sergiu Pașca · Andrew Huberman
Do great work
Superlinear Returns · Paul Graham
Scale impact by connecting your work to universal human orders
Sapiens · Yuval Noah Harari
Reclaim rest as an end in itself, not recovery time for more productive work
Four Thousand Weeks · Oliver Burkeman
Find hidden stars by looking for motivation and generosity, not just raw talent
Give and Take · Adam Grant
Replace passive screen time with demanding, craft-based, and social analog activities
Digital Minimalism · Cal Newport
What people expect to experience literally changes what they do experience
Predictably Irrational · Dan Ariely
The whole gains from disorder through the fragility of its parts
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Shape decisions by controlling how options are presented
Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman
Understand and use human psychology to gain compliance and loyalty
The 48 Laws of Power · Robert Greene