Reveal whether a franchise fee buys you a launch pad or a lasting competitive edge.

Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds

Always solve tasks just a little too hard for the model — keeping a human in the loop is what builds the data flywheel.

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 compounding trust so your reputation becomes a deal-flow asset others pay to access

How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval

Map every person who can derail or advance your sale into one of four decisive roles

The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja

What comes first warps perception of what comes next—sequence is a lever of influence.

Influence: Science and Practice · Robert B. Cialdini

Two questions that expose whether your AI platform is a strategy or an unpriced liability.

Anthropic And OpenAI Just Admitted The Model Isn't Enough. — AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones · AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Flip your AI buying sequence so developers validate viability before capital commits.

Anthropic And OpenAI Just Admitted The Model Isn't Enough. — AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones · AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

Finance depends on performance and narrative — remove the theater and the market ceases to exist

The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe

Thirty years of data tells you almost nothing — you need a century across many countries

The Golden Age of Returns is Over · Mike Staunton & Paul Marsh

Fees are the only form of alpha you can guarantee — and they compound against you

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

Act as if markets are efficient — not because they are, but because the assumption protects you.

Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford

Judge high-conviction operators by their mechanisms, not their magnitude

Can 'The World's Craziest Investor' Teach You About Risk? · Lionel Barber

Overwhelm competition by stuffing portfolio companies with 3-4x more capital than asked

Can 'The World's Craziest Investor' Teach You About Risk? · Lionel Barber

Don't fund what the market would do anyway — government money must add net output, not subsidise profits.

Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce

10x compute/year for a decade produced emergent AI — no ceiling in sight

CEO Of Microsoft AI: AI Is Becoming More Dangerous And Threatening! · Mustafa Suleyman

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

Navigate the six predictable stages of business growth from startup to unicorn while using valuation knowledge to make better decisions at each phase

What's Your Business Worth? The Entrepreneur and Advisor's Guide to Discovering, Monitoring, and Optimizing Business Valuation · Michael M. Carter, Daniel Priestley, Scott Gabehart

Build cohesive teams by overcoming five cascading dysfunctions from trust to results through a hierarchical pyramid of team behaviors

Lencioni Five Dysfunctions of a Team · Patrick Lencioni

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

Distinguish genuine knowledge from pseudoscience using falsifiability as the test

The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper

Create content worth reading by combining utility, inspiration, and empathy every time

Everybody Writes · Ann Handley

Verify the true origin of any claim, artifact, or idea by tracing evidence chains rather than trusting attribution

Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry · Arthur Colin Wright

Small initial advantages compound into massive gaps over time

Outliers: The Story of Success · Malcolm Gladwell

Categorize stocks into six types to match your investment strategy

One Up On Wall Street · Peter Lynch

Transform evaluation from verdicts into pathways

The Power of Believing That You Can Improve · Carol Dweck

Scale by maximizing output per unit of time invested across all business functions

The Man That Makes Millionaires - Turn 100 to 10k With This Step By Step Formula · Alex Hormozi

Givers are at both the bottom and top of every success metric—the key is weeding out takers

Are You a Giver or a Taker · Adam Grant

Improve a process or system without a specific goal in mind

Teach Yourself To Think - Edward de Bono · Unknown

Make a judgment based on evaluation and criteria

Teach Yourself To Think - Edward de Bono · Unknown

Make a decision based on evaluation and criteria

Teach Yourself To Think - Edward de Bono · Unknown

Make a decision between alternatives

Teach Yourself To Think - Edward de Bono · Unknown

Don't tell anyone until you've done the work — silence protects ideas from premature death

Spanx: Sara Blakely · Sara Blakely

Is your system limited by its weakest element or elevated by its strongest?

My Little Hundred Million - Revisionist History S1E6 · Malcolm Gladwell

Spot when institutions adopt luxury brand tactics to restrict access

How the US Is Destroying Young People's Future · Scott Galloway

The more labels you claim, the less clearly you can think

Keep Your Identity Small · Paul Graham

Identify when companies use charm and ideology to avoid accountability

How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Manipulate Our Emotions · Scott Galloway

Find the Best Option

Designing Your Work Life · Bill Burnett

Evaluate lead measures for effectiveness

Covey, Sean - The 4 Disciplines of Execution · Covey, Sean

Explore options

I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program That Works. · Ramit Sethi

Analyze competitors

Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter

Compete through cost leadership, differentiation, or focus

Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter

Diversify to reduce risk and increase returns

Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter

Success is never as good or as bad as it seems -- luck and risk shape every outcome

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness · Morgan Housel

Work backwards from what would have to be true to find the best strategic choice

Playing to Win_ How Strategy Really Works · A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin

Four strategies to control your attention — master internal triggers, make time for traction, hack back external triggers, and prevent distraction with pacts

Indistractable · Nir Eyal

Close the gap between your shipping product and the complete solution customers need

Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition · Geoffrey A. Moore

Combine five dimensions to discover and articulate your business model

Lean Analytics · Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

Choose your customers strategically to improve margins and competitive position

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter

Anticipate how your industry will change and position for future structure

Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors · Michael E. Porter