Override genetic pessimism to take asymmetric bets, with one hard rule: avoid total ruin.

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Transform unavoidable pain into bearable experience by deliberately constructing personal meaning

1 Psychiatrist & 20 Depressed People (ft. Dr. K) | Surrounded — Jubilee · Jubilee

Detect when weak governance is pushing an institution toward irreversible norm collapse

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

Map your civilization's lifecycle stage and act before decline becomes irreversible.

Pulitzer Prize Historian: You Won't Notice Until It’s Too Late - Anne Applebaum — The Diary Of A CEO · The Diary Of A CEO

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

Economic grievance + elite failure = the ancient pattern that ends in tyranny

Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf

In exponential platform waves, slope locks in winners before observers notice the gap

Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! · Eric Schmidt

AGI is not the inflection point — self-evolving AI that improves its own architecture is

Ex-Google Exec (WARNING): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! · Mo Gawdat

When the downside is irreversible, 1% probability is not a small number

Yoshua Bengio — AI Safety, Power Concentration, and Alignment Failures · Yoshua Bengio

Use three conditions to call the tipping point for rapid market infrastructure adoption

Is Bitcoin's Price Action Broken? What Investors Are Missing | John D'Agostino — The Wolf Of All Streets · The Wolf Of All Streets

Identify and reverse the slow erosion that kills relationships

The Most Eye-Opening Conversation on Marriage & Love You Will Ever Hear · James Sexton

Default dead plus slow growth plus no time equals company death

Default Alive or Default Dead · Paul Graham

Understanding blockchain's limitations

The Bitcoin Standard · Saifedean Ammous

Cutting off communication can protect strategic moves

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.

Make a threat credible

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.

Deny yourself an opportunity to retreat

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.

Make a move irreversible

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life · Dixit, Avinash K.

A systematic evaluation of 17+ value capture models to choose or innovate the framework by which your venture extracts revenue from the value it creates for customers.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet

Prevent cumulative damage

Protect & Improve Your Hearing & Brain Health | Dr. Konstantina Stankovic · Andrew Huberman

Redefine aging as a treatable disease to unlock funding, research, and solutions

Lifespan · David A. Sinclair

Say yes to life in spite of pain, guilt, and death by transmuting each into growth

Man's Search for Meaning · Viktor E. Frankl

Get the founding decisions right because they cannot be corrected later

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future · Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Controlled stress makes you stronger -- the dose makes the poison or medicine

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Combine extreme safety with extreme risk -- avoid the dangerous middle

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder · Nassim Nicholas Taleb