Assert and maintain momentum throughout the sale — assertively, not aggressively
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
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
Close Bitcoin mining deals with oil and gas executives by speaking to their mandate, not Bitcoin ideology
Waste Not, Want Not Using Stranded Energy for Mining + HPC | Bitcoin 2026 — Bitcoin Magazine · Bitcoin Magazine
Two questions that expose whether your AI platform is a strategy or an unpriced liability.
Anthropic And OpenAI Just Admitted The Model Isn't Enough. — AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones · AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones
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
Win high-stakes pitches by leading with one human story, then bridging to your solution with 'What if?'
"Stories Will Save Us" | Dyane Neiman | TEDxESMTBerlin — TEDx Talks · TEDx Talks
Detect when safety rhetoric is being weaponized to build competitive moats and entrench monopolies.
Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom — All-In Podcast · All-In Podcast
Trace climate shocks through commercial and financial relationships, not just physical damage.
How Climate Shocks Could Break the Economy · Edmond Rhys Jones
Partnership structures align risk with decision-making; corporate structures dissociate them
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
Separate your public identity from your beliefs so you can update when evidence demands it.
Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford
Extract the lesson, file it, move on — don't carry mistakes forward
Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden
Insert space between event and reaction so higher-order thinking can engage
Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew
Pre-decide hard rules so future-you can't sabotage current-you
Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew
Precision bombing creates a 3-stage ladder where tactical success breeds strategic failure
The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here's What Happens Next · Robert Pape
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
Economic gravity makes rational stopping impossible once you're inside the event horizon
An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are Quietly Deciding Humanity's Future! · Stuart Russell
Commit to high-stakes bets only when upside belief and downside acceptance both exist
“This Is Terrifying!” You’re NOT Ready For What’s About To Happen With AI | Jason & Brett Oppenheim — The Iced Coffee Hour · The Iced Coffee Hour
Predict policy outcomes by mapping political funders to their corporate interests
SIMON DIXON REVEALS How The Banking System Turned You Into a DEBT SLAVE — Simply Bitcoin · Simply Bitcoin
Expose post-hoc narratives that mask pure momentum as the real driver of market behavior
Quantum vs. Market, USDC vs. USDT & WLFI vs. Justin Sun - The Chopping Block — Unchained · Unchained
Distinguish genuine knowledge from pseudoscience using falsifiability as the test
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper
Test ideas by trying to prove them wrong, not by looking for confirmation
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper
Use AI to kill bad ideas fast, deepen good ones, and fact-check your own biases before committing resources
How Gumroad's CEO uses ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil Lavingia · Sahil Lavingia
Build a lattice of cross-disciplinary mental models to reduce blind spots and make better decisions
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 · Shane Parrish
Find someone who thinks differently and make them your closest collaborator
Dare to Disagree · Margaret Heffernan
Build a cross-disciplinary toolkit of mental models for superior decisions
Charlie Munger: Life Lessons · Dave Thorniley
Solve impossible problems by working backwards from what you want to avoid
Charlie Munger: Life Lessons · Dave Thorniley
Systematize your best thinking into written principles so every decision builds on accumulated wisdom
Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #251 · Ray Dalio
Focus on the human behaviors that never change rather than trying to predict what will change next
Morgan Housel — Contrarian Money and Writing Advice, Three Simple Goals to Guide Your Life, and More · Morgan Housel
Get eyebrows up in sixty seconds with three did-you-know questions and the word imagine
Intrigue - How to Create Interest and Connect with Anyone · Sam Horn
Test strategy by imagining what must be true for it to succeed
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works · A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin
Find asymmetric opportunities by identifying where math contradicts conventional wisdom
A Man for All Markets · Edward O. Thorp
Break bad habits by understanding their thought-created nature
Lessons Learned From Jay Shetty: Critical Skills for Success in Life, Business, and Beyond · Jay Shetty
Your pervasive anxiety is the tip of an iceberg of unresolved decisions, unexamined relationships, and unmet desires
Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy · Naval Ravikant
Maximize expected value through asymmetric high-risk investments
20VC — Vinod Khosla on Venture Assistance, Bold Bets, and What VCs Get Wrong · Vinod Khosla
Separate what you control from what you cannot to reduce reactivity
Why you should define your fears instead of your goals · Tim Ferriss
Spot where overconfidence exceeds actual knowledge
Circle of Competence · Shane Parrish
To outperform, you must think differently AND better than the consensus
Howard Marks — How to Invest with Clear Thinking · Howard Marks
Every situation is 'another one of those'—identify the pattern, study its history, extract the principles
Ray Dalio - The Steve Jobs of Investing · Ray Dalio
Twelve systematic failure modes that produce catastrophic choices
Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions · Morgan Housel
Trust intuition only in regular environments with feedback-rich practice
Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice · Daniel Kahneman
Your brain is a battlefield between rationality and instant gratification
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate · Tim Urban
Every decision is a bet on the future under uncertainty
Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong · Annie Duke
Respect luck as much as you respect risk -- they are the same force
Expiring vs Permanent Skills · Morgan Housel
Finding purpose and fulfillment
Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: R... · Vicki Robin
Strategic information elicitation
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Finding a winning strategy
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Prove you have a repeatable and scalable sales process by getting customers to actually buy
The Four Steps to the Epiphany · Steve Blank
Being reasonable beats being coldly rational because you'll actually stick with it
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness · Morgan Housel
Replace permission-seeking with 'I intend to...' to transform passive followers into active leaders
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders · L. David Marquet
Use data as a tool for learning, not as a replacement for vision
Lean Analytics · Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz