Stop obsessing over the goal and become obsessed with whatever is defending you from it.
Dr. Andy Galpin on Young and Profiting — Fitness Lies Exposed · Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Slow down as you succeed; trade two more years of grinding for eight years of work made out of love.
How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny — The Colin & Samir Show · Colin & Samir
Itemize the workflows where every step has an API and the count is near zero — so the agent must see and act on the screen like a human.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Load all change at once. Once a sponge is saturated, it cannot absorb more water — all subsequent change is free.
Invest Like the Best EP.394 — Tobi Lütke: Building Islands of Innovation · Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus
Freeze your lifestyle below income to accumulate discrete wealth lumps and buy permanent freedom.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
One key signal activates an entire behavior sequence; know the trigger, own the response.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Use gold's 6-month head start and global liquidity as advance signals for Bitcoin's next major move
Bitcoin is UP 50% Against Gold (Most People Missed This) — Bram Kanstein · Bram Kanstein
Turn paper book highlights into searchable digital notes using your phone and AI.
eReaders, Kindle, Kobo, and Workflows with Jason Snell — Mac Power Users · Mac Power Users
Evaluate romantic partners on building compatibility, not on finding perfection
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Only pursue goals whose process and sacrifices you genuinely want
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Treat wealth-building as a game with discoverable rules, not a lottery
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
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
The equity premium is not pi — it is not a constant and cannot be looked up
The Golden Age of Returns is Over · Mike Staunton & Paul Marsh
Every provider must offer a plain-vanilla baseline — the OTC moment for personal finance
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Soft behavioural nudges are insufficient when suppliers actively re-complexify around them
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Cutting spending in a weak economy compounds the original damage rather than clearing it.
Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce
Insert space between event and reaction so higher-order thinking can engage
Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew
Reps and time-in-market beat any clever strategy refinement.
The Investing Advice I Wish I Knew Earlier · Toby Newbatt
States under existential military pressure accumulate multiple bombs to make preemption irrational
The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here's What Happens Next · Robert Pape
You can destroy the pan, but you cannot destroy the gold inside it
The Iran War Expert: The Most Dangerous Stage Begins Now (STAGE 4) · Robert Pape
The oldest imperial tactic is running at civilizational scale via algorithms
Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear The Country Apart! · Yuval Noah Harari
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
Information's primary function is social bonding — truth is a secondary feature
Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear The Country Apart! · Yuval Noah Harari
AI replaces augmented workers before it replaces humans — the transition is the danger zone
Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat · Mo Gawdat
AI learns ethics by observing humans — the training window is the critical period
Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat · Mo Gawdat
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
When synthetic media is indistinguishable from real, trust shifts to verified provenance chains
WARNING: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End! · Sam Harris
Separate near-term misuse risk from long-term AGI risk — they need different models
WARNING: ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End! · Sam Harris
When the downside is irreversible, 1% probability is not a small number
Yoshua Bengio — AI Safety, Power Concentration, and Alignment Failures · Yoshua Bengio
AI agents are replacing cognitive work now — not in the future
Geoffrey Hinton — The Godfather of AI on Existential Risk · Geoffrey Hinton
Why AI isn't a smarter human — it's a categorically different kind of mind
Geoffrey Hinton — The Godfather of AI on Existential Risk · Geoffrey Hinton
When decision-makers privately believe something is catastrophically risky and publicly say it is fine, a Chernobyl-scale event is the resolution mechanism
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are Quietly Deciding Humanity's Future! · Stuart Russell
Require AI developers to prove safety the way we require it of nuclear plants and aircraft
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are Quietly Deciding Humanity's Future! · Stuart Russell
Precisely optimizing a misspecified objective is the catastrophe, not a step toward it
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are Quietly Deciding Humanity's Future! · Stuart Russell
Competence, not consciousness, determines who controls the planet
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are Quietly Deciding Humanity's Future! · Stuart Russell
AI is developing faster than governance: a pre-2008 financial system with systemic contagion risk
The Global Politics Expert: The Real Global Danger is What Comes Next! · Ian Bremmer
Not all AI is the same — match resource consumption to use-case requirements
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
AGI has no fixed definition — ambiguity is the feature, not the bug
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
Frontier AI follows colonial logic — four extraction pillars, structural not personal
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
500 years of empire rise and fall driven by five interacting forces in an ~80-year cycle
Ray Dalio: We're Heading Into Very, Very Dark Times! America & The UK's Decline Is Coming! · Ray Dalio
Diagnose market maturity by mapping the three participant types a healthy market requires
Is Bitcoin's Price Action Broken? What Investors Are Missing | John D'Agostino — The Wolf Of All Streets · The Wolf Of All Streets
Know when data belongs in model weights vs. retrieval to cut AI inference costs 100x
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 — This Week in Startups · This Week in Startups
Understand the brain as a pattern-making system that excels at developing ideas but struggles to generate them, requiring lateral thinking to escape established patterns
The Mechanism of Mind: Understand How Your Mind Works · Edward de Bono
Stop being ruled by the clock and start being ruled by what matters
How to Stop Time · Mike Vardy
Treat AI as a thought partner with a personality rather than a calculator that uses words
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now? · Ethan Mollick
Build a lattice of cross-disciplinary mental models to reduce blind spots and make better decisions
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 · Shane Parrish
Evaporate conflicts at their root instead of merely managing symptoms
Conflicts · Edward de Bono
Bridge the expert-novice gap by making the familiar feel new again
Made to Stick · Chip Heath
Understand how emotional reactions shape identity through accumulation over time
EVERYTHING You Think You Know About Yourself Is WRONG! (How To Find Yourself) · Mark Manson
Measure managers by their team's output, not their personal activity
One-on-One with Andy Grove · Andrew S. Grove