Episode · · 01:42
A pre-sell to 7,000 subscribers got zero sales. The failure forced a free-plus-upgrade model that broke a three-year income drought and became Trends.vc. The target I missed was smal...
Episode · · 01:44
A fraud alert in a foreign country almost became a permanent rule. The real fix was a backup card. Most bad experiences don't deserve a lifetime policy.
Episode · · 01:33
I cut from two operations days a week to one and watched email slow down while support got faster. That gap exposed a trade-off that was never real, and a way through it.
Episode · · 00:58
There are two ways to be careful with money. One group tracks what they pay. The other tracks what they get back. Only one builds wealth.
Episode · · 00:36
I drank tea before I meditated and the day went sideways. The habits were identical. Only the order changed.
Episode · · 00:29
The anger you aim at a public figure is aimed at the wrong target. The role was open and the pay was good, so someone was going to take it. The person is replaceable. The game stays.
Episode · · 01:00
A single curious question became Multi and the biggest payoff of my year. You can't tell how much an experiment will pay off before you run it, so run more of them.
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.