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.
Episode · · 01:46
Most founders see 15 competitors and feel deflated. They should feel relieved. The buyer's move in a red ocean is to switch seats and let the market do the work.
Episode · · 01:44
What's forced falls apart. The line between effort and force is flow, and the test is whether the market is returning what you put in.
Episode · · 01:06
Most people treat their morning routine like a battery that runs all day. It doesn't. Meetings, decisions and small frictions bleed it dry by noon. Reading through biographies of Dal...
Episode · · 00:28
Stress is raw material. Meditation metabolizes it. Life supplies the stressors whether you want them or not, and the practice has two modes: clearing the table or going deeper.
Episode · · 20:42
Satoshi Nakamoto built money that could run without personal trust, then protected it by becoming impossible to find. This biography traces the technical record, the political timing...
Episode · · 01:47
I sit still for two and a half hours each day. Meditation trains a specific muscle: each minute is a rep against the urge to stop or check the time, and that muscle transfers to hard...
Episode · · 02:02
I learned to code alone in Vim, with no one to unblock me. A single bug could cost a month. The high-friction years built the foundation that made everything after compound fast.
Episode · · 00:57
Stanford says believe hard enough and your willpower becomes unlimited. Henry Ford said the same thing a century earlier. Turns out the battery drains whether you believe it or not.
Episode · · 00:56
I keep my habits in an app that tracks how often I do each one. The ones at the top of the list have longer streaks. Position is the lever. Willpower is exhaustible. Interruptions st...
Episode · · 01:32
Most bug reports travel through three people before anyone fixes them. By then the pain is a paragraph in a ticket and the person who felt it has moved on. There's a shorter path.
Episode · · 01:09
I write a post each morning. By lunch, that post is a video on YouTube. One action that touches more than one node in your system at once. I call this a tap.
Episode · · 01:27
One line from my prediction markets video kept looping in my head. The market price was supposed to reflect what the crowd believed. It was reflecting those beliefs. It was also chan...
Episode · · 01:16
I spent two days on a name and shipped zero code. Domain searches across a dozen tabs. Then I stopped, deployed on a subdomain and started shipping. The name came later.