Every interaction between two people either charges or drains the battery. You can't skip to high trust — you have to charge it.

Invest Like the Best EP.394 — Tobi Lütke: Building Islands of Innovation · Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus

Win converts to controversial ideas by building an airtight case without ever stating your conclusion

Bitcoin Fights Communism | Allen Farrington — THE Bitcoin Podcast with Walker · THE Bitcoin Podcast with Walker

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

Challenge accepted wisdom by testing assumptions yourself and exploiting discovered edges

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market · Edward O. Thorp

Reason up from fundamental truths rather than reasoning by analogy to convention

Entrepreneurs should follow their instincts · Steven Bartlett

Problem-Solving Approach

Dr. Andy Galpin: How to Build Strength, Muscle Size & Endurance · Andrew Huberman

Build an intentional culture early because a broken culture cannot be fixed later

Masters of Scale · Reid Hoffman

Set impossible deadlines to transform wild ideas from insane to merely very late

Elon Musk · Walter Isaacson

Drill down to the basic physics of a situation and reason upward from there

Elon Musk · Walter Isaacson