Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchStop 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, 1 week ago
Your Habits Are Your Investment Portfolio | Daily Essay
Episode 95
I sold a habit this week: 389 days of cold showers, closed out and swapped for a daily courage challenge. Your life is the blended return on the habi…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anti-Habits: The Discipline of Saying No | Daily Essay
Episode 94
I turned down someone I was interested in because their party started after my 10pm shutdown. A look at the rules about what I won't do and what each…
4 months, 1 week ago
I Optimized My Habits Until They Broke | Daily Essay
Episode 93
For years I kept swapping working habits for better ones. Each swap reset the momentum, until I capped my habits at 13 and locked the portfolio so it…
4 months, 1 week ago
Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day | Daily Essay
Episode 92
A habit set on a single target snaps the first hard week. Set each habit on a range instead, with a floor low enough to clear on your worst day, and …
4 months, 1 week ago
My Cold Shower Got Better. My Business Didn't. | Daily Essay
Episode 91
I made my cold shower longer for months while my business barely grew. The willpower I poured into a habit that already worked was willpower the bott…
4 months, 1 week ago
An AI Named the One Trait That Predicts Success | Daily Essay
Episode 90
An AI, asked what separates the ultra successful, named tolerance for ambiguity. Most people resolve the not-knowing too early and call it prudence. …
4 months, 1 week ago
Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide | Daily Essay
Episode 89
A jellyfish survives 500 million years with no brain, every decision made at the edge. Where decisions should live, at the edge or in a center, decid…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Make Hard Decisions When You Already Know | Daily Essay
Episode 88
A poker trainer hands you the right move in a fraction of a second. Pulling the trigger is the hard part. Knowing the expected value was never the bl…
4 months, 2 weeks ago