Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHabit Banking: What You Can Bank and What You Can't | Daily Essay
Episode 105
My sleep app shows a debt. Skip an hour of sleep and it adds that hour to the total. A few short nights running and I owe eight hours, then ten.
Feat…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Small Habits, Big Results: 47 Novels Before Work | Daily Essay
Episode 104
I sat down to meditate for one minute a day, fifteen years ago. The sitting now runs up to two and a half hours, and the same math built a business, …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The $4.6 Billion Lesson in Not Rushing | Daily Essay
Episode 103
Rick Guerin had the same returns as Buffett and Munger. He borrowed to get there faster and lost his seat at the table. The same leverage runs throug…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
You're Not Lazy. The Step Is Too Steep. | Daily Essay
Episode 102
One line in my task queue said "set up an email address." It was really nine steps across two domains. Breaking a task into its real steps is what tu…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
4 Things I'd Tell My Younger Self. One Changed Everything. | Daily Essay
Episode 101
If you rewound your life and took the fastest route to where you stand right now, you'd see how much time got burned on things that didn't matter. A …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Confidence Is a Trailing Indicator | Daily Essay
Episode 100
Confidence is a trailing indicator. The feeling follows the evidence, and the evidence comes from reps. A neuroscientist's work on addiction explains…
4 months ago
The Navy Cured Scurvy. Then It Uncured It. | Daily Essay
Episode 99
The British Navy cured scurvy, then optimized the cure away without noticing. The habit whose benefit you can no longer feel is the one you're most l…
4 months ago
Why I Can't Drink a Latte (and Billionaires Pay No Tax) | Daily Essay
Episode 98
Two rules I keep for unrelated reasons (no caffeine after ten, no food before two) quietly banned coffee with milk. The same thing builds computers i…
4 months ago
Stop Trading Your Habits Like Stocks | Daily Essay
Episode 97
The investors who traded the most underperformed the market by a wide margin. I traded my habits the same way, swapping working routines for new ones…
4 months ago
Why Mormons Get Rich and Adventists Live to 100 | Daily Essay
Episode 96
Jews are 0.2% of the world and have won 20% of the Nobel Prizes. A poor kid in Salt Lake City has the best odds of reaching the top of any big city i…
4 months ago