Spend extravagantly on what you love, cut mercilessly on what you don’t

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha — yap-natalie-ellis · Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

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

Don't bid for the asset you want — buy the thing it can't operate without, then set the terms.

Patriots Owner Robert Kraft on The David Rubenstein Show (full episode) · The David Rubenstein Show / Bloomberg

Acquire unprofitable small operators using asymmetric knowledge and turn them profitable

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

Negotiate acquisition working capital that exceeds your equity injection for a net-positive day-one cash position

Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

Use third-party approval requirements to negotiate aggressively on price and structure when buying a distributorship

Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

When a competitor collapses, you don't need their company — you need their people, today.

I Had $78 in My Bank Account… Now I Own a Private Jet | Vick Tipnes (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Every 'overnight success' is 20 years of overlooked nights. Plan accordingly.

Don Vultaggio on How I Built This with Guy Raz (full episode) · Wondery / Guy Raz

What KIND actually competed on: a real product, honest packaging, ownership culture.

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

Compare sovereign offerings as products to find where your tax dollar delivers maximum ROI

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

Identify the 7 conditions that guarantee costly mistakes before you make them

The Investing Principle Everyone Agrees With (And Almost Nobody Follows) — James Shack · James Shack

Fund ecosystem restoration in proportion to each buyer's share of raw-material impact across the supply chain.

The Big Idea Funding Forest Conservation · Andika Putraditama

Tax global wealth to fund direct cash transfers to citizens of countries bearing the climate damage.

Tax the Rich and Save the Planet · Esther Duflo

Audit life by your two finite budgets — time and money — and spend the scarcer one on what actually matters.

What It's Really Like to Win the Lottery · Matt Pitcher

Technologies only flip incumbent markets once they cross the better threshold on price and performance.

4 Hard Truths About Capitalism and Climate · Steve Howard

Prepare your financial position before you fall in love with a property

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

Match your spending to your lifetime income curve, not just today's balance

The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner

Pension contributions deliver a day-one return no other asset class can match.

Britain's Pension System Is In Danger · Tom McPhail

For those without parental wealth, deliberate financial knowledge is the one lever that reliably closes the gap.

The Wealth Gap No One Talks About · Eliza Filby

Track every pound you spend for one month. You'll spend less without trying.

The New Rules for Building Wealth in 2025 · Rob Dix

When the rules of money change, the old playbook stops working — and most people haven't noticed.

The New Rules for Building Wealth in 2025 · Rob Dix

Finance depends on performance and narrative — remove the theater and the market ceases to exist

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Finance rarely builds — it mostly finds clever ways to move wealth from one pocket to another

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Short-run risk metrics force long-horizon institutions to act like day traders

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Markets are human constructs, not laws of physics — and can be redesigned

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Home bias is always wrong — own the world, not your postcode

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

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

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

Long-duration savings vehicles require policy certainty — frequent rule changes destroy the incentive to save

Top Finance Experts React to the UK Budget 2024 · Paul Johnson & Claer Barrett

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

Society obsesses over the financial extremes and ignores the vast vulnerable middle

The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai

Teams with better cultures report more errors — they're not making more, they're hiding fewer.

Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford

Master theory, history, psychology, and business — then everything else follows

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

Interest rates are a dull sword swung in the dark — blunt, delayed, and paradoxically capable of causing the opposite of what's intended

The Interest Rate Crisis Has Just Begun · Edward Chancellor

Interest is crystallised impatience — the inescapable price tag on every transaction across time

The Interest Rate Crisis Has Just Begun · Edward Chancellor

Debt is the multiplier that turns a bubble into a great crash

The Next Global Crash Is Inevitable - Top Economist · Linda Yueh

Distinguish capital that builds value from capital that merely shuffles ownership.

The UK Is The Most Unequal High-Income Country In The World · Paul Collier

Your first money teachers wrote scripts you're still acting out today.

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

Money misbehaviour is always a symptom — the real issue lives upstream.

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

Two clicks to verify a sustainability claim — if you need more, they don't mean it

Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden

Money stores the output of your work — it's never the goal itself

Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden

Learn the language, build the community, use modern tools.

Finance doesn’t have to feel like a foreign language, says @YourRichBFF #TEDTalks · TED

Value a business line by line so forecast errors cancel instead of compound.

How to Invest in Stocks · Sasha Yanshin

A bond is born at par, dies at par — only the middle is dirty.

The Right Way To Use Bonds · Ramin Nakisa

Approach markets with no preset answer; let data tell you what's real.

The Truth About Investing · Patrick Boyle

Vet creators on incentives, credentials, and cross-checks.

This Is How You Build Wealth · Richard Coffin (The Plain Bagel)

Build systems that override your investing reflexes.

This Is How You Build Wealth · Richard Coffin (The Plain Bagel)

One day a year to keep the simple machine in tune

Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew

Reduce until reduction stops being helpful, then stop

Change How You Think About Money · Pete Matthew