Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYour 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 2 weeks 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, 3 weeks 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, 3 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, 3 weeks ago
How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price | Daily Essay
Episode 87
Cutting the price of Trends Pro changed who signed up. Support rose, engagement thinned, the room shifted. Raising the price back filtered for people…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Customer Lifetime Value: What ConvertKit Got Wrong | Daily Essay
Episode 86
ConvertKit auto-upgraded my bill the hour my list crossed a tier, then held the higher price when it dropped back under. Their own logs later admitte…
4 months, 3 weeks ago