Vet the GC as rigorously as the GC vets you to protect cash flow and culture
Blue Collar Business Ep 32: Dirt to Dollars, Excavating Success with Clay Hudspeth (HudX) · Sy Kirby
Discipline the spirit through the body to transform leadership character
The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader · Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Shared goals dissolve intergroup hostility that contact alone cannot fix
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Measure yield at each funnel stage per channel to find and fix your marketing ROI leaks
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Map six demand elasticities to find where AI expands markets and creates net-new jobs
The New Jobs AI Will Create — The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News · The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News
Build the internal controls and documentation that lets your company survive SEC scrutiny
Preparing to Take a Bitcoin Company Public | Bitcoin 2026 — Bitcoin Magazine · Bitcoin Magazine
Prepare your Bitcoin business to seize the public markets window before it closes
Preparing to Take a Bitcoin Company Public | Bitcoin 2026 — Bitcoin Magazine · Bitcoin Magazine
Defend your Bitcoin like critical infrastructure using Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.
Defending Bitcoin: Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid | Luke de Wolf | BIS #202 — Bitcoin Infinity Media · Bitcoin Infinity Media
Match verification rigor to transaction risk—collect only what the context demands
The Digital ID Trap Is Closing Faster Than You Think (your version, lock as-is) — TFTC · TFTC
Soft behavioural nudges are insufficient when suppliers actively re-complexify around them
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Approach markets with no preset answer; let data tell you what's real.
The Truth About Investing · Patrick Boyle
Price high-uncertainty assets by probability-weighting their two extreme outcome narratives
Why Bitcoin Will Eat the Biggest Market on Earth — Robin Seyr · Robin Seyr
Apply ancient Zen principles to modern life through a practice that integrates sitting meditation with ethical action and everyday awareness
What is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind · Norman Fischer
Sustainable happiness begins with accepting all emotions — including painful ones — as natural and necessary
Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness · Tal Ben-Shahar
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Combine high demands with high support to build gritty cultures
Angela Duckworth - Grit The Power of Passion and Perseverance at Talks at Google · Angela Duckworth
Generate daring hypotheses then subject them to the harshest tests you can devise
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
Treat AI as a thought partner with a personality rather than a calculator that uses words
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now? · Ethan Mollick
Connect compelling stories to rigorous numbers to make better investment and business decisions
Aswath Damodaran: “World Order is Coming Apart” | Prof G Markets · Aswath Damodaran
Build lasting happiness through faith, family, friendship, and meaningful work
The Happiness Professor: THIS Will ACTUALLY Make You Happier · Arthur Brooks
Lock your future self into good decisions before temptation arrives
Katy Milkman on "How to Change" - Think Better Speaker Series · Katy Milkman
Submit to reality and build mastery through rigorous, humble, observational learning
Mastery Side Material · Robert Greene
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
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
Innovate through inspiration, ideation, and implementation cycles
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation · Tim Brown
Shift from treating disease to preventing it decades in advance
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity · Peter Attia
Use your everyday observations as an investment edge
One Up On Wall Street · Peter Lynch
Build audience through consistent delivery of actionable frameworks
The Curiosity Chronicle by Sahil Bloom · Sahil Bloom
The biggest risk is not failure but spending your time on things that succeed but do not matter
Shreyas Doshi on Pre-Mortems, the LNO Framework, Three Levels of Product Work, and Strategy vs. Execution · Shreyas Doshi
Nurture gently when creating then edit ruthlessly — never mix the two phases
Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success · Jerry Seinfeld
Plot customer value against penetration to identify winner-take-all businesses
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing (Invest Like the Best) · Bill Gurley
Follow a systematic 32-step process from research to revision for sales pages
The Copyhackers Guide to Conversion Copywriting · Joanna Wiebe
Apply mathematical thinking to life decisions for maximum fulfillment
The Prof G Pod — Scott Galloway on Business, Technology, and Life Frameworks · Scott Galloway
Categorize scenarios as Possible, Plausible, or Probable before acting on them
Musings on Markets: Valuation and Investing · Aswath Damodaran
Treat abilities as developable skills, not fixed traits, to unlock potential
Fixed vs Growth Mindsets · Carol Dweck (via Maria Popova)
Any idea goes, but you must defend it with evidence and logic
Rigorous Thinking: No Lazy Thinking · Wes Kao
Your viable career options exist only where desire meets reality
How to Pick a Career That Actually Fits You · Tim Urban
People suffer more from not knowing than from bad news itself
Perspective is everything · Rory Sutherland
Government funding corrupts academia
The Bitcoin Standard · Saifedean Ammous
Stimulate evolutionary progress through high levels of experimentation, opportunistic action, and purposeful selection of what proves successful
Built to Last · Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
Create intensely strong cultures with fervently held ideology, rigorous indoctrination, tightness of fit, and a sense of elitism that preserves the core
Built to Last · Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
Competition is power: the number of interested VCs determines your negotiating position more than any tactic
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
A disciplined process for narrowing from hundreds of potential markets to one beachhead you can dominate, then expanding from that position of strength.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
A structured ten-task system for accelerating leadership transitions and reaching the break-even point faster
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded_Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter · Michael D. Watkins
Five leadership disciplines that extract and multiply the intelligence in organizations
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter · Liz Wiseman
Use vivid before-and-after stories to select your beachhead market
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition · Geoffrey A. Moore
Use data as a tool for learning, not as a replacement for vision
Lean Analytics · Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
Track both the purchase moment and every moment of actual use
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice · Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan