The three signals Lubetzky looks for in a founder — and the order he learned them in.
Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Build something so authentically yours that no one can compete with you
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Win by focusing on customer discrepancies, not on what your competitor is doing
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
Make every problem visible and exploit every asset—before the competitor does
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
A complete system for winning complex B2B sales through process, not persuasion
The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja
We comply with people we like; six reliable triggers manufacture that liking automatically
Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini
Double your income and impact by tripling your investment in personal mastery
The 5 AM Club · Robin Sharma
Defeat a stronger adversary by corroding it from within across every domain except direct military force.
Top Venezuelan Spy Confirms Trump’s Biggest Fear | Ralph Pezzullo — Danny Jones · Danny Jones
If you can't articulate the major risks, you're in a fan club, not an investment.
How to Invest in Stocks · Sasha Yanshin
The oldest imperial tactic is running at civilizational scale via algorithms
Yuval Noah Harari: They Are Lying About AI! The Trump Kamala Election Will Tear The Country Apart! · Yuval Noah Harari
The 1945 stability architecture is collapsing — price in high-variance geopolitical tail risk now
You're Watching the End of the World in Real Time · Eric Weinstein
Founders' conviction is a moat against their own blind spots — the adjacent market they dismiss is often the alpha
Uber CEO: I Have To Be Honest, AI Will Replace 9.4 Million Jobs At Uber! · Dara Khosrowshahi
Real great-power competition is won upstream — in minerals, tech, and standards, not missiles
The Global Politics Expert: The Real Global Danger is What Comes Next! · Ian Bremmer
Race at wasteful speed only when competitors are racing or critical mass demands it
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Founder: It's Time To Quit Your Job When You Feel This! · Reid Hoffman
AGI has no fixed definition — ambiguity is the feature, not the bug
AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By AI Companies, They're Hiding The Truth! · Karen Hao
AGI is a meta-advantage that compounds across every competitive domain simultaneously
AI Expert: Here Is What The World Looks Like In 2 Years! · Tristan Harris
Train AI on your proprietary data so your model becomes a durable, owned company asset
Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278 — This Week in Startups · This Week in Startups
Build lasting business wealth by developing five interconnected leadership pillars from passion through character
Voss Top 5 Keys to a Rich Life: Business Wealth Handbook · Chris Voss
Price strategically by creating value first, communicating it effectively, structuring prices to capture it, and managing competition through policy rather than reaction
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably · Thomas T. Nagle, Georg Muller, and Evert Gruyaert
Fall in love with your client, not your product—become the most trusted advisor in your market
The Strategy of Preeminence · Jay Abraham
Find, face, frame, and form your way to competitive advantage through continuous learning and waste elimination
The Lean Strategy · Michael Balle
Win by cycling through observe-orient-decide-act faster than your opponent
Airpower Reborn · John Andreas Olsen
Understand why well-managed companies fail when new technologies emerge from below
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
Manage energy, not time, across four dimensions to achieve sustained high performance
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal · Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Competition is for losers—build a monopoly by creating something nobody else can
Competition is for Losers · Peter Thiel
The most valuable businesses are built on truths that most people disagree with or have not yet discovered
Peter Thiel Interview Full Episode The Tim Ferriss Show Podcast · Peter Thiel
Achieve mastery by deeply internalizing fundamentals until complex skills become instinctive
Anne Lamott and Josh Waitzkin — The Tim Ferriss Show · Anne Lamott, Josh Waitzkin
Identify and leverage the specific sources of strategic advantage available to you
Good Strategy Bad Strategy · Richard Rumelt
The pandemic compressed a decade of change into weeks — identify where your industry now sits on its 2030 trend line
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity · Scott Galloway
Play to keep playing rather than to win and you build companies that endure
If You Want To Be SUCCESSFUL In Life, Master This ONE SKILL! | Simon Sinek · Simon Sinek
Become your client's most trusted advisor, not just a vendor
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got · Jay Abraham
Create blue oceans by eliminating, reducing, raising, and creating across industry factors
Blue Ocean Strategy · W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Create demand that outstrips supply using four proven levers
Oversubscribed · Daniel Priestley
Small initial advantages compound into massive gaps over time
Outliers: The Story of Success · Malcolm Gladwell
Trying less at the right things often produces better results
The Curiosity Chronicle by Sahil Bloom · Sahil Bloom
Plot customer value against penetration to identify winner-take-all businesses
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing (Invest Like the Best) · Bill Gurley
Understand how wealthy customers subsidize mission and what threatens them
Revisionist History - Food Fight (S1E5) · Malcolm Gladwell
When luxury spending by one institution forces competitors to sacrifice mission
Revisionist History - Food Fight (S1E5) · Malcolm Gladwell
Identify industries ripe for disruption using four vulnerability signals
The Prof G Pod — Scott Galloway on Business, Technology, and Life Frameworks · Scott Galloway
Strategically prepare your mental and physical state before high-stakes interactions
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism · Olivia Fox Cabane
The most important strategic decision is which game to play, not how to play better
Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower · Seth Godin
To outperform, you must think differently AND better than the consensus
Howard Marks — How to Invest with Clear Thinking · Howard Marks
If each new user makes the product more valuable for all users, you win
Bill Gurley — All Things Business and Investing · Bill Gurley
Identify your unique strengths to outperform others
Two Wise Men Stories for Children Inspired from the Wit and - Vishal Khandelwal & S B Vallari · Unknown
You do not need to be twice as good—just 1% better consistently to win disproportionately
The 1 Percent Rule · James Clear
Tail-end consequences matter more than probability or average outcomes
The Three Sides of Risk · Morgan Housel
Knowing when to fold is the highest-leverage decision skill
Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong (Knowledge Project) · Annie Duke
Separate tangled strategic problems into distinct, solvable components
Good Product Manager Bad Product Manager · Ben Horowitz
Own your product's success completely—no excuses, no dependencies
Good Product Manager Bad Product Manager · Ben Horowitz
Do one thing so people assume you do that one thing brilliantly
Perspective is Everything · Rory Sutherland