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)
Build mental bedrock from first principles to evaluate any idea independently
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Build bottom-up wealth through three layered state mechanisms, not universal income
Labour MP: This Budget Just Tax The Rich! · Liam Byrne
Rebuild post-industrial places from a small founding team with moral philosophy and replicable business skills.
The UK Is The Most Unequal High-Income Country In The World · Paul Collier
Ask your mum before you read the textbook — real financial lives beat models
The Rich Will Bankrupt Us All - Gary's Economics · Gary Stevenson
If you can't articulate the major risks, you're in a fan club, not an investment.
How to Invest in Stocks · Sasha Yanshin
Layer correlated scenarios over a base model to price risk explicitly.
How to Invest in Stocks · Sasha Yanshin
Value a business line by line so forecast errors cancel instead of compound.
How to Invest in Stocks · Sasha Yanshin
Approach markets with no preset answer; let data tell you what's real.
The Truth About Investing · Patrick Boyle
Empower Individuals
The PARA Method: Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life · Tiago Forte
A bottom-up, customer-validated method for quantifying your beachhead market size in annual revenue to ensure your venture targets a market large enough to sustain it.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
Connect every contributor's work to the organization's mission
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Define the What (Objectives) and measure the How (Key Results)
Measure What Matters · John Doerr
Seven collaborative steps to drive results without telling people what to do
Radical Candor · Kim Scott
Map your total commitments across six altitudes to know where you truly stand
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done · David Allen
Build the organizational conditions where innovation becomes habitual
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Observation-Driven Approach
Evolutionary Psychology The New Science of the Mind, · David M Buss
Empowering employees
How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale · Masters of Scale
Build extraordinary systems that attract great people -- not the other way around
Work the System · Sam Carpenter
Evolve processes so complex and tacit that competitors cannot replicate them in time
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer
Acquire cheap options with capped downside and unlimited upside
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb