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
Progress from knowledge deficit to frontier-level insight to spot deals others miss
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Convert one-shot deals into repeat games to align incentives and eliminate cheating
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Anchor your liquid portfolio in self-custodied Bitcoin, then use ecosystem instruments as accumulation fuel
Peter Dunworth: $300 Trillion Is About to Flow Into Bitcoin — Robin Seyr · Robin Seyr
Master the two things that matter in any venture deal: how the economics work and who has control of the company
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Recognize how negative content economics distort your information diet and warp your view of reality
AI Negativity Bias · Sahil Bloom
Negative emotions are not problems to eliminate but signals to decode
Mark Manson - Giving a F*ck About What Really Matters · Mark Manson
Twelve systematic failure modes that produce catastrophic choices
Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions · Morgan Housel
Selectively attract bad types
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.
Say less than necessary and control what others know about your intentions
Brainpicking Robert Greene: His Key Ideas About Power · The Sapiens Network
All strategic action is based on controlling what the opponent perceives
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Double knowledge of self and opponent eliminates uncertainty in competition
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Don't reveal your hand; read other players by making them reveal theirs.
The Trading Game: A Confession · Gary Stevenson
Estimate the odds, update with evidence, and prepare for fat tails
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1 General Thinking Concepts · Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien
We understand time by mapping it onto space -- and this mapping distorts our thinking.
Your Brain Is a Time Machine The Neuroscience and Physics · Dean Buonomano
Every spike of pleasure triggers a mirror-image dip in pain -- manage both
How to Increase Motivation & Drive · Andrew Huberman
Assume unseen problems always exist and build systems to surface them proactively
Creativity, Inc. · Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
Acquire cheap options with capped downside and unlimited upside
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Control what others know and don't know to maintain decisive advantage
The 48 Laws of Power · Robert Greene