Episode · · 01:00
Day one of a habit is an inertia problem. Day 89 is a boredom problem. The challenge changes as a habit ages, and naming the level you're on tells you which fight you're actually in.
Episode · · 00:53
Three weeks of planning a habit I never started. The first step felt too steep. I set a timer for one minute, worked on the launch, and did it again the next day.
Episode · · 00:43
John Rawls wrote a thought experiment about the original position. Imagine you're behind a veil, about to be born, but you don't know where.
Episode · · 01:12
You can be consistent and still be dying. Every habit has a hurdle rate: the minimum input it needs to clear the entropy working against it. Show up below the rate and you lose groun...
Episode · · 00:51
I ran for half an hour and ten minutes became my new normal. Most habits break because the daily target has no room above it. Put the habit on a range with a floor and a ceiling, and...
Episode · · 01:19
Every rule I set to stop scrolling at night broke until I added jazz. Imperfect substitution beats failed abstinence because it leaves you with progress while pure willpower leaves y...
Episode · · 01:59
I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later, I deleted the app.
Episode · · 06:28
Great operators run two stacks every day: the work stack and the distribution stack. This episode maps how writers, founders and investors build both, and why one stack alone leaves ...
Episode · · 01:41
Three years of zero income ended in two hours because someone in a room saw what I couldn't. The five things a mastermind does that solo work can't replicate.
Episode · · 01:07
Charlie Munger said this when asked how to live a good life. Your learning rate is your investment rate.
Episode · · 01:05
For 15 years I believed meditation had to be the first thing after waking. One experiment with sun exposure dissolved that 15-year belief in 48 hours. The more experiments you run, t...
Episode · · 02:37
I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later the day was gone. Five lessons from the board that run my work and my life.
Episode · · 00:45
I draft most posts on walks now. One experiment, voice-to-text, changed how much leverage every post gets.
Episode · · 01:07
Say the word investor and most people picture money. Money is one resource among several you trade every day to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Episode · · 01:06
I broke my meditation practice many times over fifteen years. The pattern was always the same. A working practice, the impulse to make it more efficient, and a feedback loop too dela...
Episode · · 01:49
Three types of experiments — mental, physical, social — cost different amounts of energy. The type you avoid most is usually the one to lean into next.
Episode · · 11:57
Lee Kuan Yew built one of the most efficient states in modern history and engineered the legal toolkit that kept his party in office for fifty-six years.
Episode · · 00:50
Each day I'd open my notebook and copy yesterday's principles to a new page by hand. Some lines I wrote without thinking. Others slowed me down.
Episode · · 01:38
Each day I remove three things. A physical item, an app off my phone, a subscription on autopay. A jellyfish has no brain and has lasted 500 million years.
Episode · · 03:26
I came up with a term to describe something I value. If tardigradity is the probability a thing keeps going, it has to come from somewhere.