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Back to SearchWarren Buffett's Ovarian Lottery: Are You Born Lucky? | Daily Essay
Episode 65
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.
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Consistent But No Progress? It's the Hurdle Rate | Daily Essay
Episode 64
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 …
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How to Make Habits Stick When Life Pushes Back | Daily Essay
Episode 63
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 rang…
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Substitute, Don't Subtract: How to Break a Habit | Daily Essay
Episode 62
Every rule I set to stop scrolling at night broke until I added jazz. Imperfect substitution beats failed abstinence because it leaves you with progr…
5 months, 1 week ago
Engineered Addiction: Why I Deleted the App | Daily Essay
Episode 61
I sat down to play one game of chess. Twelve hours later, I deleted the app.
Featuring: Tristan Harris, Sean Parker, Reed Hastings
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Habits of Great Writers, Founders and Investors | Daily Essay
Episode 60
Great operators run two stacks every day: the work stack and the distribution stack. This episode maps how writers, founders and investors build both…
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What a Mastermind Group Actually Does | Daily Essay
Episode 59
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 r…
5 months, 1 week ago
Charlie Munger's Learning Machine (In Plain English) | Daily Essay
Episode 58
Charlie Munger said this when asked how to live a good life. Your learning rate is your investment rate.
Featuring: Charlie Munger
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5 months, 1 week ago
Don't Believe Everything You Think. Test It. | Daily Essay
Episode 57
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…
5 months, 1 week ago
5 Things Chess Teaches Us About Life | Daily Essay
Episode 56
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.
Featuring: Benja…
5 months, 2 weeks ago