A market-creating bet that pencils out on analysis still needs a live, in-person event to convert intellectual interest into capital-grade conviction — go stand in the building before you commit.
MLS Growth Story: A Conversation With Don Garber and Jonathan Kraft (MIT Sloan SSAC 2020) · MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Optimize for forever, not for the white-hot space — own assets that compound instead of chasing what's newest.
JAY-Z: The New York Times Interview with Dean Baquet · Dean Baquet / The New York Times Style Magazine
Some assets are bought to keep forever — so the rational price and the right price are different numbers.
Patriots Owner Robert Kraft on The David Rubenstein Show (full episode) · The David Rubenstein Show / Bloomberg
Try to kill the dream; invest in whoever survives.
Mike Repole on Next Up with Adam Breneman (full episode) · Next Up with Adam Breneman
Price a rental-only product to own instead, anchor it to content worth repeating, and let ownership pull the hardware market up with you.
Stuart Karl: Who's Who in RCA VideoDisc · CED Magic
Make all the thumbnails first; then go execute the videos that fit them.
How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny — The Colin & Samir Show · Colin & Samir
Make content that restores the viewer, not content that mines them — and accept that it costs you no reach.
How Ryan Trahan Changed YouTube with a Penny — The Colin & Samir Show · Colin & Samir
A research org wins by concentrating compute on a few big bets and disbanding the rest — not by letting a bottom-up credit market allocate it.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Build the human relationship before you build the recording — don't even let them see the camera for the first half hour.
Brady Haran: YouTube's One-Man Liberal Arts Degree · The Create Unknown (Kevin Lieber & Matt Tabor)
Markets are efficient at filling vacuums. Coast, and someone else breathes your air.
Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Every CEO directive has an implicit asterisk: do it, as long as it still makes sense to you.
Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Never do anything to disrespect the longest-tenured front-line worker.
Patrick Terry on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Pre-asked birthday cake delivered to every employee's store, every year.
Patrick Terry on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Track every deal at the right level and prevent feast-or-famine income cycles
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Every buyer has a personal Win that sits behind the business Result they negotiate for
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Sell only to buyers who perceive a gap—and create the gap for those who don't
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
When uncertain, look left and right; what others do becomes the best evidence of what you should do.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Give first to obligate; the rule runs deeper than liking, culture, or rational self-interest.
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Stop interrupting prospects — earn their attention by publishing content they want
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Anticipate every executive's justification checklist before they raise it
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Articulate value in all seven dimensions VITO cares about, not just price
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Lead with an informed hypothesis of customer needs rather than asking customers to educate you
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
A data-derived taxonomy that reveals which rep type wins complex sales by a landslide
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Habits install in 66 days through three phases: Destruction, Installation, Integration
The 5 AM Club · Robin Sharma
Develop Mindset, Heartset, Healthset, and Soulset for complete human performance
The 5 AM Club · Robin Sharma
Separate your depression from your self-blame to stop the cycle that prolongs both
1 Psychiatrist & 20 Depressed People (ft. Dr. K) | Surrounded — Jubilee · Jubilee
Extract peak insight from non-fiction by reading to comprehension, not to completion
eReaders, Kindle, Kobo, and Workflows with Jason Snell — Mac Power Users · Mac Power Users
Replace subjective scouting with smartphone-recorded drills scored against age- and gender-matched benchmarks.
How AI Is Discovering Athletes That Human Scouts Miss · Richard Felton-Thomas
A six-question protocol that moves stuck conflicts from positions to underlying dreams 87% of the time.
Relationship Advice from 50+ Years of Marriage · John and Julie Gottman
Shift demand in time and space to unlock stranded capacity instead of building more supply.
How AI Can Solve Its Own Energy Crisis · Varun Sivaram
Design AI to challenge your thinking, not replace it — preserve engagement, offer resistance, scaffold metacognition.
How to Stop AI from Killing Your Critical Thinking · Advait Sarkar
Financial habits are being set by age seven — start before school shapes the wrong ones
How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill
Dying without a will hands a stranger's rulebook to the people you love most.
68% of People Are Making This Expensive Mistake · Sam Grice
Your mortgage broker should know your life plans, not just your last payslip
UK Mortgage Expert: The Key Things You Need To Know · Anthony Emmerson
Spend time at the wealth level above yours to make the next step feel inevitable
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
Collect irrefutable proof you are capable before fear convinces you otherwise
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
Every decision should be evaluated at the last unit, not the average
The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner
Auto-enrolment solved participation but left contribution levels dangerously low.
Britain's Pension System Is In Danger · Tom McPhail
Parental wealth, not personal effort, is the dominant engine of opportunity in the 21st century.
The Wealth Gap No One Talks About · Eliza Filby
If you can retire early, you probably won't want to — so build for choice, not cessation.
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
Every asset serves one of three motivations — protect, maintain, or improve your wealth.
The New Rules for Building Wealth in 2025 · Rob Dix
The 20th century was exceptional — build your retirement plan around something closer to 5% real
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
Reform everything at once or don't call it reform at all
Your Taxes Are About to Go Up (Again) · Helen Miller
A 1% annual fee doesn't cost 1% — it costs a quarter of your final pot.
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
Your future earnings dwarf your portfolio — so own more stocks when young
If You Understand This, You'll Never Fear a Market Crash Again · William J. Bernstein
Remove the punch bowl before the party peaks — not after the crash
The Next Global Crash Is Inevitable - Top Economist · Linda Yueh
Every revolution resets to the starting point; only sequenced reform builds forward
Extreme Wealth Will Destroy Democracy · Martin Wolf